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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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nected to 3-I1. p. General Electric motors which run at 75 to200 1. p. m. The station is served by a crane of 40 ft. span and 15 tonscapacity. The trolley, bridge and hoist travels are respectively 50to 100, 25 to 50 Piid 3 tf^ S ft. per minute, power being furnished byyyi. 2 and 25 h. p. motors. The booster mentioned in connection with tlie eqnipnient of theCLiUral Sntion i; to be removed to the sul)-station. Tliere is also EXPERT REPORT ON THE IMPROVEMENTSOF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE TERMINALS. The board of engineers appointed to devise plans for improvingthe terminal facilities of the Brooklyn bridge, in accordance withthe directions of the McCarren act, has submitted a report the sub-stance of which is given in the following extracts. The board consisted of Messrs. T. C. Clark, Mem. Am. Soc. C. E.;.Mfred P. Boiler, Mem. Am. Soc. C. E.; Henry G. Front, Mem. Am.Soc. C. E., editor of the Railroad Gazette. The board organizedI)V the election of Mr. Clark as cliairman and Mr. Front as secre-
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lliieler the VENTILATINC TUNNUnder th a 20-kw., 5S0-volt generator direct connected to a 350-volt induc-tion motor. Tiie itd:-sliilior, switchboard ivas furnished by the GeneraiElectric Co. T bit board is 37 ft. 4 in. long and comprises 2 three-phase line panels, t alternating current machine panels and 10direct current 1.200 ampere feeder panels. The high tension switch-boards in the Northern Station and the sub-station will have theGeneral Electric pu-^li button system of control. Concerning all the stations herein described it may be .said thatthey are essentially modern as regards details, sanitary plumbing,lockers for employes, etc., are provided. The lighting is by meansof incandescent arcs. The active executive officer of the St. Louis Transit Co. is Mr.A. B. du Pont, second vice-president and general manager, Mr,John Grant is superintendent of the operating department, Mr. W.r. Cook superintendent of power, and Mr. C. .\. Mareno engineerof maintenance of way. Mess: s. \V. D TJ

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