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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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ht of an engine,whether stationary or locomotive at work. The con-struction of cable and electric lines have afforded opportu-nities all over the country for the building of some of themost attractive specimens of these wonderful agents in theconversion of force, among the latest of which, andsomewhat out of the usual type emplojed, is the new500-horse-power, which for the past ten days has been diameter with 50 inch face. If a grooved wheel for ropetransmission were used instead of the belt, the floor spacewould be reduced to 12 feet by 13 feet 2 inches. Thetotal height above capstone is 15 feet. The condensingaparatus is under the floor and independent. The num-ber of square feet on floor required to contain the engineand wheels is 180 or only .36 of a square foot per horse-power. The engine is driving two No. 60 Edison rail-way generators by two 25-inch leather faced belts. Theprincipal dimensions are as follows:—diameter of highpressure cylinder, 17 inches; of low pressure, 33j4
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BUFFALO CITY RAILWAY 5OOHUR >E-IOWER ENGINE OF THE LAKE ERIE ENGINEERING WORKS driving the generators of the electric lines of the BuffaloCit) Railway. President Watson and General ManagerLittell naturally take just pride in their new and hand-some acquisition. It is of the inverted cylinder type, compound, with twosets of cranks set at right angles; the crank shaft havingfive bearings, one of which is out-bored and providedwith two belt wheels between the outer bearing andengine proper. It occupies a space 12 feet by 15 feetover all, including wheels and outer bearing. The baseplate is 8 feet by 9 feet 9 inches, and the wheels 12 feet inches; stroke, 28 inches; revolutions per minute, 130;diameter of crank shaft, 75^, gyi and 12 inches; weightof wheels, 36,000 pounds. At full speed, the wheelsdevelop about 2,500,000 force units, or 5,400 units perhorse-power upon a rating of 500 horse-power. Thegovernor is at one end of the crank shaft, and is of theone-armed type and acts directl

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