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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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for 500 to 550 volts. A12-ton fly-wheel, 12 ft. in diameter with i6-in. face, ismounted on each sliaft. The engines are operated non-condensing. The switchl)oar<l is of wliite marble, 2 in. thick, anddivided into four panels, one of which is used for the light-ing circuits. Weston instruments are mounted on theboard. In the boiler room are two water tube bciilers rated at 750h. p. each. In each are 131 4-iii. tubes iS ft. long, and ontop three drums 38 in. in diameter and lij ft. long. Thepressure carried is 125 lbs. at the present time which willsoon be increased to 150 lbs. Natural gas is used for fuelbeing burned with Claybourne burners. Crude oil is fedinto the boilers to prevent the formation of hard scale andan automatic feeder supplies it at the rale of one i;uart perday. The Crane Company of Chicago furnished the valvesand piping. Stratton separators are used on the steam linesand all the exhaust returns to a heater which raises the feedto about 200°!. Citv water is used.
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INTBRIOK OF ENGINE ROOM—MARION CITY RAILWAY. ()96 ^1Ji£d%dM4i\S\gvk\v* The stack is of brick, 75 ft. high, aiul 13 ft. square at thebase. The flue inside is 7 ft. The connection from theboilers to the stack consists of three underground conduitsarched over. The road employs 50 men and operates 32 cars, eight ofwhich are open. The closed cars are of 16 and iS ft. bodyand the open cars have a seating capacity of 45. The carsand trucks were manufactured by the J. G. Brill Companyand the Barney & Smith Company, and are equipped withG. E. Soo and S. R. G. motors. The company has two carbarns, one with three tracks 150 ft. long and one with twotracks 200 ft. long. At one of the barns is also located therepair shop. Cars are run at speeds varying from 9 miles per hour inthe center of the city to 25 miles; the headway is 10 min-utes on the route No. i and 20 minutes on all other lines.Marion has a population of 22,000, Jonesboro has 2,500 andGas City 5,000 and in addition there are som

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