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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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., is between the two largeengines to assist in starting them and also in running thecable backwards or forwards in case of repairs. In the boiler room there are eight Lancashire boilerseach 8 ft. in diameter and 30 ft. long, working under apressure of 100 lbs. Mechanical stokers feed the coal fromhoppers, into which it is distributed by means of an ele- two lamps in front of red bulls eyes which are the tail-lightsto the train. To distribute the current two conductor rails,of light T-section and bonded at the joints, are placed 6 in.apart on the inner side of the inner tunnel and on the outerside of the outer tunnel. Trolley wheels are attached tothe sides of the cars and run horizontally on these conduct-ors. Each car is fitted with these trolley wheels and whentwo or more cars are in a train they are coupled electric-ally. The track forms the third conductor in the circuit. The passenger cars are especially designed for this lineand have many unique features. The purpose was to get
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2. IN COPLAND ROAD STATION.3. ST. ENOCH STATION. vator and screw conveyors. Two large exhaust steam feed-water heaters deliver the water to the boilers at a temper-ature of 200° F. All the piping is in duplicate. The car shed is a building 220 ft. long and 115 ft. wideand is built above the tunnels. The cars are run into thecar pit, an opening under the shed 28x55 ft., and arelifted a distance of 20 ft. by means of a 12-ton travellingcrane. The car is then carried by the crane to any of thesix lines of track for storage or repairs. The subway, stations and buildings are all lighted byelectricity. Four compound vertical engines of 129 h. p.each is direct connected to the dynamos. Two dynamosrun at 540 volts and the other two at 270 volts. The cur-rent is distributed by the three-wire system and the circuitin the subway is tapped into by feeders at four differentpoints. The interior of each car is illuminated by fourincandescent lamps, the front vestibule by one i6-c. p.which also acts

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