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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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y, Mo.,has decided to build four miles of track as soon as possible; it willcommence operating the road with 12 cars, and is in the market formaterials and equipments. \V. O. Hands, who has been appointedmdnager of the company, advises us that the motive power to beadopted will probably be electricity, although compressed air hasbeen under consideration. Mr. Hands has been identified with street railway work for over10 years and has had an experience which well fits him for the posi-tion of manager of a company that is building its lines. From 1887to i8yo he was with the Brush Company at Cleveland and after-wards with the Short Electrical Company. He supervised or as-sisted in the installation of the roads at Muskegon, Mich.; Roches-ter, N. v.; Baltimore and Washington. Mr. Hands has served assuperintendent and electrician of the Braddock (Pa.) and BeaverFalls roads; in 1894 he went to Kansas City to become purchasingagent and superintendent of the Northeast Electric Railway Com-pany.
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ICNCINE Rf)OM or REBUILT STATION OF UNION TRACTION COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. had to be rebuilt; the fourth one was but little injured. Just pre-vious to the fire it had been decided to replace the four generatorsin the old station, which were of 1,100 k. w. capacity with new 1,500-k. w. machines. The change made necessary new engine shafts, ofwhich but one had been delivered at the time of the fire. The new shafts were made by the Bethlehem Iron Company offluid pressed open-hearth steel, and forged in a s,ooo-ton hydraulicpress. The tensile strength of the material was 85,000 lbs. per sq.in. and the elastic limit 35,000 lbs.; the extension in A-in. specimens2 in. long was 25 per cent. Two of these shafts are 20 ft. 554 in-long and two 21 ft. sJ4 • The boiler-room equipment comprises 19 Babcock & Wilcoxboilers of 375 h. p. each. Hoppes open exhaust heaters and Snowsteam pumps are installed. The exhaust steam not utilized in heat-ing the feed is carried to a stack connected with the

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