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Identifier: streetrailwayjo221903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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PLAN OF GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS OWNED BY RAILWAY AT NEWPORT, KY. the company. There is a fireproof oil room on one side of the the tracks at the alley at the side. The machine shop has a building and a lavatory and a bath room for the men. This is good equipment of tools, including an engine lathe for turning supplied with hot and cold water, and there are both tubs and axles, wheel lathe, boring mill, wheel press, lathes, etc. shower baths. All the plumbing is first class, and the place is The company is receiving a lot of twenty single-truck cars, 1048 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXII. No. 25. designed for both summer and winter service. They are theSt. Louis Car Companys semi-convertible type, and are 31 ft.over all, 21-ft. body and 8 ft. wide. The bottom framing has a
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NEW CAR OF CINCINNATI, NEWPORT & COVINGTON SYSTEM sill 7 ins. w ide and 6 ins. deep, with a %-in. strip of iron run-ning through it edgewise. The sides are constructed of %-in.poplar panels with no concave. The cars have front end vesti-bules, closed on one side and open on the other, and the rear endhas an open platform. There are fourteen cross-seats, of the St.Louis Car Companys reversible enameled rattan type, and two brakes, St. Louis sand-boxes and Hunter fenders are includedin the equipment. Thomas Kelch, master mechanic of the shops, has designedseveral unique devices that have been adoptedin the shops and on the road. One of theseis a hinged trolley harp, illustrated herewith.By removing a cotter at the side, one arm ofthe harp may be opened, and the trolley wheelslipped off the bearing. It is claimed that thework of changing a trolley wheel can be donein one-fifth the time required with the ordi-nary harp. Any style of wheel may be used.The harp fits very close around th

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo221903newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:1067
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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