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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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ft. olA in. between centers andwhere the center poles are used the T-rail tracks are 12 ft. betweencenters. To support the trolley wire, a single pipe is used, passingthrough the pole with standard fittings. A unique feature of theoverhead work is the absence of cross arms and the use of spe-cially designed feeder hangers bolted to the pipe in the center pole located at an angle in the Depew Boulevard, and is supplied witliwater from the reservoir of the Depew & Lake Erie Water Co..only one-half mile distant. The plan of the power house is shownin one of the accompanying drawings; the car house is 150x59 ft.,with four tracks. The company now owns five cars built by th(-.\merican Car Co., of St. Louis, but the car house provides trackroom for the storage of 10 cars; in the car house are a repair pit85 ft. long and a well equipped office. The engine room containstwo 300-k. -w. General Electric rotary converters, at present oper-ated as generators and driven by two 300-h. p. engines.
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(•LAN OF BUFFALO & DEIICW IOWER HOUSE. line and to the sides ot the poles where the usual side pole spanwire construction is followed. The method of attaching theseclamps and the clamps themselves arc shown in the accompanyingillustrations. The clanip.s are ol cast iron and hold spools madeof maple. The writer believes these clamps to be a marked itnprovcment upon the usual appliances for attaching the feeder The company expects that in a short time electric energy willbe transmitted to Depew from Niagara Falls, when the rotary con-verters will !jc used as such and the steam plant will become anauxiliary for emergency use. The engine room is large enough toperinil the installation of another rotary or generator and a thir 1engine if such should be required, by reason of any extension of 348 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XI, No. 6. the line. For the present one machine generates sufficient cur-rent fur operation of the road. The most important structures in the line of this roatl

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