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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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. The Washington Water Power Co. transmits current to theCoeur d.Mene mines, the distance being 80 miles to the first sub-station and loi miles to the last. There are eight sub-stations, fiveof which were put in service in iyo.1. At the sub-stations currentis stepped- down to 2,300 volts. The transmission line is No. 2medium hard copper, with the wires placed at the vertices of anequilateral triangle, 42 in. on a side. Poles arc 35 ft. long and placed at such a depth as would bring the rails one inch belowgrade. The rails are then put in place, shimmed up to grade andgrouted with concrete, consisting of one part cement, two partssand and three parts broken stone. Granite i)aving blocks areplaced each side of the rail, with a flange way of ilj in. .Ml ofthe track was welded by the Falk joint process. rile rolling stock comprises 70 motor cars, 39 of which are theI.rill convertible or semi-convertible type, equipped with GE-67tnolors and National b.lectric Co. air brakes. These cars are
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COUER 11 .M.F.Xi; TKKMIXAI, c IF I orEK V .\1.ENE S: SPOKANE RV. spaced 125 ft. apart, except in liurke, where 65-ft. poles have to beused in order to meet local conditions. Burke is in a gulcb sonarrow that there is only room for two rows of houses and a road-way. This roadway is occupied by two railroads, two telegraphcompanies, one telephone company, one electric light company andthe Spokanc-Coeur d Alene transmission line. Sixty-five-ft. polesare necessary to get this last line above the other wires. Whentrains pass on either of the railroads the inhabitants have to getinside their houses. mounted on Brill No. 27 trucks. The rest of the equipment con-sists of cars of the California type, mounted on Brill maximumtraction trucks, with GE-800 and GE-52 motors. The company employs about 150 trainmen and .ilmnt 25 men inthe carpenter, painting and forge shop forces. In the train service,the day men work 11 hours straight in the morning or afternoonwith a dinner relief, or swing runs, w

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