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Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
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
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ORE c.vRS iiN trestle: SNOW ClT ON LINE (IF WHITE KNOB COPPER CO., LTD. There are two trains in regular service each of which carries about80 tons of ore and each train makes from three to four trips daily.The entire line is on a grade of about 6 per cent and the roadbedis laid with 60-lb. T-rails on rough cedar ties, 2 ft. between centers.Angle-bar joints are used and the road is rock ballasted. ment consists of two home-made pilot plows which were attached tolocomotives. The overhead line consists of a No. 00 trolley wire and twoaluminum feeders of seven-strand No. 4 wires, each of which isfour miles long. The overhead material was furnished by the Ohio
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Vlttt (,!■■ ELEtTKlC LOCOMOTIVE A.Nl) ORE CARS ON Till-: RAILWAY OF T H K WIllTL KNcill I CIPIKR 1 u., I.TU. The rolling stock includes two Baldwin-Weslinghouse electric lo-comotives 21 ft. 3 in. long and 6 ft. 9 in. wide over all. The loco-motives have 30-in. chilled casliron solid wheels with journalsjyi X 7 in. They are equipped with Weslinghonsc automatic airbrakei. The rolling %tock al«o includes 40 ore cars of 8 tons ca-pacity, of the gondola type, each weighing 6,500 lb., also two flat Brass Co. The railroad winds up ihrough the hills and the feederscut across ridges at times and in other places follow the track inorder to give lapping points at a distance of every 500 ft. The polesarc 25 ft. long, of pine, and arc 6 in. in diameter at the top. The posvcr plant operates both the smelter and the railroad so thatindividual data are difficult to obtain. A water power has been 812 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. I Vol. XIV, No. lo. acquired by the company and steps arc being taken to c

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