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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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is illustrated incross section in Fig. 2 and contains a 6-ft. sheave, set in apit 12 ft. 4 ins. x 9 ft. 1 in., and 5 ft. 3 ins. in depth belowthe surface of the street. The sheave is built in halves, sothat if an accident should occur it can be taken up throughthe trap. Guiding sheaves 15 ins. in diameter are set on eachside of the end sheave to lead the cable on to it, and are pro-vided with guard hoops to prevent the cable from being December r, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 1061 jerked off in the event of slack being formed by unevenness and has a hemp core. It weighs 1.1 lbs. per foot. The cable in the tension of the cable. installed in 1903 was removed in February, 1906, when a The terminal-pit, Fig. 3, is 23 ft. 6 ins. in length and is new cable of the same size and manufacture was installed to provided with a removable floor covering. It contains a replace it. hydraulic buffer, to be described later, for cushioning the The hydraulic buffer at the foot of the balance-weight con-
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF TERMINAL PIT. CROSS SECTION AT SUBWAY MANHOLE i-IG. 3.—CROSS SECTION OF TRACK AND LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF TERMINAL PIT descent of the weight. This pit, the sheave-pit at the top ofthe incline, and the entire length of the subway are lighted bythirty 16-cp lamps, which in the subway are spaced about30 ft. apart. The buffer car, which is connected by the cable throughthe counterweight, is illustrated in Fig. 5. It is built of tim-ber with standard running gear, and is permanently attachedto the cable by a grip consisting of a i^-in. pin and shacklewith a ij4-in. square shank. The grip shank, which passesthrough the J/^-in. cable slot, is a steel plate % in. in thick-ness, 12 ins. wide at the bottom and 18 ins. wide at the top.It is clipped at the top to a 2%-m. shaft held in bracketsbolted on the under side to the framing of the buffer car. duit is illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6. The cylinder is of castiron 10 ins. in outside diameter and 4 ft. in length. Thepist

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