Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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being located at each end of the line shaft. Transmissionis by gears; the drums are:—three pair 14 feet in diam-eter, and one pair 16 feet in diameter; each drum weigh-ing 3^ tons. Walkers differential drums are used and the cables r/ ewrapped three times on each drum. Every drum is adriver. The fly wheels are24 feet in diameter andweigh 65 tons. All the im-mense driving machinerywas built by the WalkerManufacturing Company ofCleveland. The cables areI 5-16 inches in diameter andwere made by RoeblingsSons. The length andspeed of ropes are: threeropes averaging 24,000 feet,twelve miles per hour: onerope 25,000 feet, fourteenmiles per hour. Independentof the others, each cable canbe thrown out by a Walkerfriction clutch of 400-horse-power. The tensions arespecially well arranged, hav-ing a long run. The boiler room contains three Bab-cock-Wilcox tubulars of 362 horse-power each, and is amodel in all respects. Oil has been used as fuel for
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STARTING FOR A BASE BALL GAME—CLEVELAND CITY CABLE RAILWAY. Station, power being derived from two 1,200-horse-powerWright engines 38 by 60, running 63 revolutions perminute, made by Wright & Co., New York, one engine nearly two years, being piped from the Standard OilCompanys tanks, a distance of four miles, direct to under-ground reservoirs near the cable station. An electric iWd §^lUt!tlV^^/^^M2^ 949 lioht outfit lights the station and offices. There is acomplete iron working shop in the rear. The chiefengineer is Philip Brickman. The cars run in trains of two cars each or more, asrequired. Grip cars are 25 feel o\er all and the trailersare 30 feet o\er all. The trailers are mostly made by J.M.Jones Sons. Meaker stationarjregisters are used. Thetrack construction includes cast iron yokes weighing380 pounds and set live feel apart, embedded in concrete,leaving a conduit 23 inches deep by 18 wide. Carryingpulleys are spaced to 32 feet and are 15 inches in diameter.The vokes wer

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