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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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ive-car trains. The Key Route, orferry system, and the ferry were built during the past year, andwere firil opened 10 IralKc in the latter part of September, 1903. the train in the acccini;)aTiying ilhistralion. This Irulley has beenexamined by a number of prominent electrical engineers, all ofwhom have pronounced it otie of the best that has ever been pUtinto practical opcralinn. The master mechanic of the OaklandTransit Consolidatcil. Mi St Perc, stales lliat lli.- trullcy Is very 294 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vou XIV. No. 5. cheap to build and from the nine it was put into operation lastSeptember has a* yet required practically no repairs. The track construction of the railway systems is of the best.The rails arc a 70-lb. A. S. C. E. section and are laid on redwood such wheels cause on the rails at the gaps or flangeways for thewheels on Ihc crossing tracks. After the roadbed had thoroughly settled it was rc-snrfaced andoiled, crude oil being used direct without heating. A diagram of
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SHORE KND OF PIER. 0.\KI„\ND TR.ANSIT CONSOLIDATED. ties 6 X 8 in. X 8 ft. and spaced two feet apart. The rails are doublebonded at each joint with Edison-Brown No. 0000 bonds. The en-tire line is heavily ballasted with crushed rock, ten to twelve inchesof which is placed under the ties. The plan of what is known asthe University Ave. crossing, which is shown herewith, illustratesthe substantial character of the track construction. .An elevation of the track-oiling attachment for the tank car is shown herewith. Theflow of oil is controlled both by a valve on the tank car and alsoby a quick-acting gate valve just below the 4-in. union. About twomiles of single track can be oiled with a 6,500-gallon tank car. Oneof the illustrations shows the arrangement of tracks and pole line onthe pier. The overhead work is double bracket, center pole con-

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