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Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of this para-bola, and as the interior is covered with aluminum leaf the re-flection is practically uniform over the entire sign. A smallangular reflector, as shown in Fig. 23, is placed in front of thelamp so that there are no direct rays from the lamp through the sign. The sign itself is of ground glass, painted black, exceptwhere the letters are left in the ground glass, and it is just aslegible in the day time as at night. NEW ELECTRIC ROAD IN ROTHESAY The equipment of the electric tramway at Rothesay, Scot-land, presents some points of interest, arising mainly from theunusual conditions which prevailed. It necessitated the com-plete dismantling and re-erection in Rothesay of a generatingplant, which for some time operated the tramways on theoriginal Springburn Route of the Glasgow Corporation, andthe supply of new electrical and auxiliary machinery. Rothe-say, it might be said, is the princijjal town on the Isle of Buteand is famous throughout Scotland as a watering place, large
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SPAN CONSTRUCTION AT ROTHESAY numbers of visitors crowding tlicre during the sunmier months. Quite unusual difficulties prevailed in regard to the transportof material and it was necessary to improvise plant in ordersuccessfully to ship and land the apparatus. The main diffi-culty arose in landing the material and plant at Rothesay, theonly available landing pier being quite unprovided with ap-paratus for the hoisting of heavy goods. It was not easy, forinstance, to land cars, not so much in regard to weight as totheir extreme length, which was in some cases 43 ft. 5 ins.The cars and the plant were transshipped from Glasgow bymeans of barges, and were landed at Rothesay by cranes spe-cially erected on the pier head. The extent of the line at present is about 2j^ miles. Thetrack construction is on standard lines. The gage of the lineis 3 ft. 6 ins.; the rails are 60 ft. long, and weigh 94 lbs. peryard and 97 lbs. at cross-overs. The bonding throughout is ofNeptune standard bonds. The g

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo211903newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:537
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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