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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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, leaving on the 5 lbs. of bri(iuette per mile not including that necessary toget up steam, and the water rate 33.3 lbs. On the return, two trail cars were attached, making thetotal train weight 83,600 lbs.; the maximum speed wasabove 37 miles per hour; on grades of .8 and .3 per centthe speeds were 23 and 34 miles per hour respectively, thefuel consumption was 8 lbs. per mile. The illustrations show a general view of the car and aview of the drivers platform. The car is 17 ft. 5 in. longand 8 ft. 2^ in. wide; the postal compartment communi-cates with the drivers platform by a glass door. There isalso room in this compartment for 10 passengers. Whenloaded the total weight is 49,600 lbs. The steam generatorhas a heating surface of 121.S square ft. and a grate surfaceof 4.95 sq. ft.; its weight is 6,270 lbs. Steam is furnishedto two engines with Stephenson valve gear, which are bothconnected to the front axle, that one alone being driven.The steam pressure carried is 255 lbs per sq. in.
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POSTAL AUTO-CAR, SERPOLLET MOTOR. DRIVERS PLATFORM. return trip at 3 :40 a. m. and arriving at 5 a. m. This insuresa night postal service to all stations on the line. For sometime this car has been drawing two express cars as trailersfrom Beauvais to Creil, returning with three, making thetotal train weights of about 74,000 and 92,000 lbs. respec-tively. This car seems to fulfill the requirements andenables the company to give this necessary but unremunera-tive service at a small cost. The time required for getting up steam is 45 minutes andthe fuel consumed amounts to from 90 to 100 lbs. For around trip as scheduled above the fuel required is 418 lbs.,distributed as follows : no lbs. for getting up steam andconsumed prior to the start, 99 lbs. on the trip from to Creil,77 lbs. during the wait at Creil and 132 lbs. for the returntrip. The water rate is between 32 and 35 lbs. per milerun. On trips between Paris and Beauvais, 49 miles, a speed ofbetween 21; and 30 miles per hour were at

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