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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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ks before him, firstdetermines from the blank over what routes or portion of routeseach car has traveled during the previous day, and, by glancing atthe diagram, is able to jot down iniinodiately the total miles coveredby each car. 902 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIV, No. n. Fig. 2 is a chart used for quickly transposing lineal feet intodecimal fractions of a mile. This table will be found accurate tothree places in the decimal. It has proven very convenient in carniiloagc work, and, in fact, in all track and similar calculationsThe formula. Lin. Ft. x .00019. will give correct reading to two 7a0j.£ o^ ^£t/n DeciMALs OF A Mite. 1000 PI.. .iSSTni. The (>arc of Switchboards. 2000 = .378 7 3000 = .seal 4000 = .7575 5000 - .9*69 bOOO ■ 1. I3<i4. 7000 = I.J257 Sooo = l.ilSI 9000 s I.704.T 10000 = 1.9959 Zoooo < •3. 7876 30 000 = 5 «ai6 40000 = 7 S7S7 Soooo = 9 4497 bOOOO * II 3640 70000 •- 13.2S77 doooo - IS. ISIS 900O0 = I7.04S4 100000 = ia.9393 jL/A^.^r K.000^9 ^ Afues
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L/N£AL FEET FIG. 2. MILEAGE DIAGK.\M. places in the decimal. This formula is not altogether original withthe company, but is based on a table in Electrical and EngineeringTables, by Sidney Sprout, E. E., San Francisco. In Fig. 3 i.s shown a table that has been found useful for readyreference in determining the cost to be quoted for chartered cars.The table is laid out in the form of a square, and gives the mileageand rates between all points of importance between the companyslines. In the table shown tlie rates are not indic.Ttcd, but are to beinserted in the individual squares beneath the mileage figures. It is surprising to notice, in visits paid to central stations for thesujiply of electricity, evidences of the fact that, wliile systematicattention is devoted to the cleaning of the buildings and mechani-cal plant, and some little cfTort is made to keep the electrical runningmachinery in good order, very supcrlicial notice is often taken of thecondition of the switchboard. An inst

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