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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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cess. The poverty of the people isa drawback, but this is in part counterbalanced by theirinate laziness and indisposition to walk when fares arelow. It is hardly necessary to say that this is the firstelectric conduit road in the orient, as it is the first electric usual ammeters and voltmeters and double pole automaticcut-outs. The generators are driven with rope trans-mission from two horizontal cross compound 180-horse-power engines, working at 120 pounds steam pressure.Two Babcock & Wilcox 250-horse-power water tubeboilers furnish the steam, and are supplied through aBerryman heater. C. Gadsby is the present residentelectrician. We wish our East Indian friends much suc-cess in their new undertaking, and hope it will stimulatesimilar action in other eastern cities. BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS CON-NECTED BY TROLLEY. It is now possible to go from Buffalo to Niagara Fallsby trolley. At the two cities of Niagara Falls there aremagnificent electric systems, which touch all the numer-
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3 road in India, and there is only one other electric road inAsia. The length is 5^4 rniles of single track. Exten-sions which will make this figure 7 miles will soon beunder way. The line is practically a dead level, and insome places is only 7 or 8 feet above high water. Tracklaying was all done by natives. The conduit is similar to that at Budapest, in that it hasthe slot alongside one track rail. The conductors aresteel T rails hung on porcelain insulators. The feedersare lead sheathed and armored cables. All motor carshave a 7-foot wheel base. The wheels are 2 feet 9 inchesin diameter. The motors are rated at 10 brake horse-power at 500 revolution.s per minute. They are singlereduction, using double helical steel gears. The powerhouse is a substantial building, containing two Elwell-Parker generators, giving 240 amperes at 500 volts.Generators make 430 revolutions per minute and haveautomatic lubricating pumps. The switchboard has the ous points of interest in this portion of nat

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