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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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chine room is ample storage space. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT OF THE DUNEDIN TRAMWAYS,* NEW ZEALAND The work in connection with the installation of the Dunedinelectric tramway system, at Dunedin, New Zealand, is pro-ceeding rapidly. Messrs. Noyes Brothers, the engineers, havealready laid about 5 miles of track and erected most of thepoles for the overhead work. The car house is completed, andten of the cars are assembled. The cars are of Brill manu-facture with 21-E trucks, fitted with Westinghouse magneticbrakes, and are equipped with Westinghouse motors and con-trollers with brake notches. It is proposed eventually to oper-ate the generating plant by water power, but until the hydraulicwork is completed a temporary steam plant is installed for thetime being. The steam plant consists of three 200-kw Westing-house generators coupled directly to Belliss Morcom engines,the boilers being of Babcock & Wilcox type. The steam plantis well under way, and it is anticipated that some of the cars
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OPERATING TROLLEY CAR THROUGH FLOODED STREET IN LOS ANGELES will be operating in December. W. G. T. Goodman is theengineer in charge of the designing and construction, on behalfof Messrs. Noyes Brothers, his principal assistants being J. H.D. Brearley and F. R. Shepherd. *++ TROLLEY OPERATION UNDER DIFFICULTIES The accompanying illustration shows a car of the PacificElectric Railway Company, of Los Angeles, passing throughGrand Avenue on its way to Redondo Beach. This photographis one of particular interest, as it was taken during the rainyseason on the coast, and it illustrates very strikingly the pe-culiar difficulties the street cars have to encounter in severalstreets of Los Angeles during the rainy season. In the recent vote by the people of San Francisco on thequestion of authorizing the city to issue bonds to take over theGeary Street, Park & Ocean Railroad, the returns showed thatin the lodging-house districts the vote was largely in favor ofmunicipal control; that in the

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