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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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s. Hie car equipment is at present under construction and willconsist of 10 passenger cars, 50 ft. 6 in. over all. Light of thesearc being built by the Niles Car & ManiifacliirinK Co., Nilcs, O,,and two by the (i. C. Knhlman Car Co., Cleveland, O. The Nilescompany is also building two express car and one constructioncar. Two snow plows have been ordered by the company, one ofthese being a large double-truck rotary plow iHiilt by the PeckhamManufacturing Co., Kingston, N. Y., and the other a double-endRussell snow plow built t.y the Russell Car & Snow Plow Co.,Kidgway, Pa. The latter is the first plow of this lyj>e which hasbeen constructed for electric railway service. The trucks arc allof the .M. C. B. type, of very heavy construction, with 6-in. axlesand steel-tired wheel. Westinghousc No. 119. i lo-h. p.. atid Wcstinghouse No. 121, 85-h. p. motors will l>e used. .Ml cars arc to l>c equippcrl with fourmotors and nearly all of the cars will l)e provided with Westing-
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.\i.\r siuiwiNi; coMri.ETEii roKiioN (ji.- kochester, svkacuse & e.\.stekn k. k. 300,000 c. m., and the four rails are cross-hoiidcd every 600 ft. Theroad is huill eiUircly on private right of way except through thevillages, and has 12-ft. track centers. The overliead equipment is of span construction. The poles are35 ft. long with 8-in. tops and 14-in. hutfs. set 6 ft. in the ground,the face of the pole being 8 ft. from the center of the nearest track.The poles are anchored at frequent intervals by Crou.se-Hinds flukeanchors and 3/16-in. steel-strand guys. The trolley is No. 0000grooved copper wire and the feeders are two 500,000-c. m. cables.A telephone line of No. 10 wire is installed. There are two circuitswith additional circuits for sigilals. making in all six wires. Thereis also a duplicate high-tension line of No. 2 wire in triangles, 60u). and 36 in. respectively, the 36 in. being used for emergencyonly. The arches, viaducts and structures are of concrete and steel,and th

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