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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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All the difficultieswere met and vanquished, however, to the rejoicing of allconcerned. Our engraving represents a street scene dur-ing the work. The new West Chicago loop rope will cross the NorthChicago cable at the corner of LaSalle and Madison andagain at the corner of Madison and Dearborn streets, <^^l;ied.j\mWuylf^i£W 329 returning by State and crossing the North Side Com-panys tracks again at LaSalle and Washington, besidespassing the old West Side loop cable at the same inter-section. The old West Side loop will be devoted to theinhabitants of Milwaukee avenue, ja wohl, while Madisonstreet cars will utilize the new convenience. In every case the new rope passes under the NorthSide cable in the manner hereinafter set forth. The crossing as shown in the accompanying engravingis accomplished by means of three sheaves, two elevatingthe cable and one depressing it. The first elevating pulley is 48 inches in diameter witha I i.( inch groove, running on a 4^; inch steel shafting
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CLRVE CONSTRUCTION, STATE AND WASHINnTDN STREETS—WESTCHICAGO STREET RAILROAD. set in a special bearing, the bore of which is of 4 inches,with a brass shell. The pulley rim is interchangeable andhas wrought iron ring forming groove. The wheel itself is cast iron. The depressing pulleys vary in size from 30 to 36inches diameter with a i?<( inch deep groove. Thesecond elevating wheel which raises the cable againis like unto the first in dimension. The west rope isdepressed 9 inches below the north cable, and 4 inchesintervene between the parallel West Side ropes. The momentum required by the West Side trains mustenable them to clear 15 to 20 feet at the single crossingand from 30 to 40 feet at the double crossing. The safety device protecting the rope from the care-lessness of gripmen who fail to raise their grip is a deadman of special construction. For the benefit of the elec- trical brethren it may be well to explain that the deadman is a steel shaft jutting into the conduit at t

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