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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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and Brooklyn.But now the Louisville Street Railway Company is to havethe giant of them all. This generator, which is to be thelargest ever built for traction work, is now under construc-tion at the works of the General Electric Company atSchenectady, and will be installed in the Logan street sta-tion in Louisville, Ky. The capacity of the machine will be 2,400 k. w. or 3,0(Ki PREPARATIONS FOR THE CONVENTIONIN BOSTON. The executive committee of the American Street Railway.Association met in Boston on January 26, to arrange for theannual convention. The members present were PresidentLang, Secretary Penington, Robert McCulloch, St. Louis;J. A. Riggs, Reading; R. S. Gofif, Fall River; H. C. Moore,Trenton. Ales.srs. Roach, Wyman, Ely and Connette wereunable to attend. The officers and the executive committeehave set about the preliminary work with great vigor and willspare no pains to make the coming convention a success iuevery way. The convention will be held September 6 to 9, inclusive:
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MECHANICS BUILDING, BOSTON. li. p. and will stand an overload of 33 per cent, so that thecapacity in cases of emergency may be 3,200 k. w. or 4,000h. p. The generator will be driven at a speed of 75 r. p. m.by a 4,ooo-h. p. cross compound engine, to be furnished bythe E. P. Allis Company of iVIilwaukee. The principal di-mensions are as follows: diameter of field frame, 19 ft.; widthof field frame, 4 ft. i in.; 22 poles; diameter of armature,12 ft. 9 in.; diameter of commutator, 9 ft. 8 in.;diameter of shaft. 2-j in.; width of armature,5 ft.; width of commutator, 21 in.; weight of arm-ature and commutator, 83,000 lbs.; total width of gen-erator, j-j in.; total weight of generator complete, 174,000lbs. On account of the large diameter the armature can notbe transported over the railroads in its completed state,either erect or on its side, and will have to be assembled inLouisville. this early date was chosen largely because a suitable hallcould not be had during October. Accommodations

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