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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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CAR HOUSE BERKSHIRE STREET RAILWAY. journals, 18x32 in. The rating at 150 lb. steam and i cut-off is1,120 h. p.; at 6/10 cut-ofT is 2,150 i. h. p. The total shippingweight of each 1 .. );.. As is usual in the Rii >n design the cylinders are made of close grained cast iron, as hard as can be worked, with facedheads and pistons, and water relief valves at each end. Tiny arc-made to safely withstand a working pri ssure of 150 lb. after having The governor is the builders improved patented inertia gicrnor, guaranteed peed will not vary more than 1 per cent from no load to full load, and that the instantaneousvariation under any condition of loading will not exceed 2 per cent.The governor is free from vibration and is in perfect balance atall speeds. A special stop motion is provided t immediately stopadmission of steam to the cylinder, if the governor becomes disabled.
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INTERIOR in i \K HOUSE—BERKSHIRE STREET RAILWAY. two ordinary rcborings. The exhaust valves are located andshaped according to this companys patented design, the steam pass-ages being formed in-the valves themselves instead of in the cylin-der. For this arrangement the builders claim these advantages:The clearance space is reduced to minimum; the valves wear andremain tight, even after long use; the movements are short and Each governor has the same characteristic and there is no pumpingor hunting the load. A variable check valve arrangement is locatedin the dash pot whereby the governor action may be dampened toany desired point for successful operation of alternating dynamosin parallel on railway loads. The governor has control of bothcylinders, and low pressure gear is under control of hand adjust- Nov. 20, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. SI 5 mem while engine is in operation, so that the relation of cut-offin one cylinder to the other may be changed to suit the load. The balance f

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