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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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in. over all,with a capacity for 30 passengers inside and the same numberoutside. The Inaugural Car, which was especially decoratedfor distinguished guests on the initial trip, is shown. The earswere especially designed and constructed for this road. The bot-tom frame is of steel channels and oak, with side and cornerposts of white ash, and mahogany panels. Besides the usualhand brake there is also an electric emergency brake.- The carsare mounted on the Peckham maximum traction truck, known asthe Middlesbrough Special. Each truck carries two 30-h. p.motors operated by series-parallel controllers. The traffic since the opening of the road, July 16, has beenmore than satisfactory and indicates a prosperous future for th;?company. A number of important extensions are contemplated,some ot the franchises having been already granted. Such roadsas this are needed in every part of England, aud we hope thatthis may be the prototype of many others which may bo con-structed in the near future.
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STORAGE BATTERY ROO.M. SWITCHBOARD.—WESTON INSTRUMENTS. verters deliver a direct current of 500 volts to the switchboard.The lines for two miles on either side of the station are fed fromthe main switchboard. Three-phase alternating currents aretransmitted three miles to the sub-station over two three-corecables at a loss of only 5 per cent. Here the voltage is reducedby the transformers and changed to a direct current by threerotary converters to be distributed to the rest of the system. Themain switchboard, shown in the cut, consists of white marblepanels. The instruments are mostly of American makes. Westonammeters and voltmeters being used. Direct connected to each of the generators is a slow-speed,horizontal cross-compound, condensing Reynolds Corliss engine,made by the E. P. AUis Company, of Milwaukee. The cylinder di-mensions are 16 and 36.x32 in. The engine room is 52x100 ft., andalong its entire length is a track for a 10-ton traveling crane.In the boiler room there are thr

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