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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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he Akron Street Railway are used to connect withAkron, tile county seat of Summit Count\, ^i_, miles awa\. There are two power houses, one located at CuyahogaFalls and the other at Bedford, 18 miles distant. At Cuya-hoga Falls are installed four 35o-horsc-po\\ er Stirlingboilers, supplying steam at 120 pounds pressure, to two 28by 42-inch simple non-condensing AUis-Corliss engines.The boiler plant is ec;uipped with Rose shaking gratesand a Berryman feed-water heater. The stack is of steelplate, self-supporting and 120 feet high abo\ e llie grates.The engines run at 82 revolutions per minute and arebelted to Tesla-Schmid, double-end type, d. c, a. c, 250-kilo-watt generators, liuilt by the Westinghouse Companv.•Vt present the current is taken from the commutators,but it is intended at some future time to centralize thepower plant at the Cuyahoga Falls station and use alter-nating current with a transformer station at Bedford. Theengine flv-wheels are 17 feet in diameter and weisrh 20
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SCENES ON THE AKHON, BEDFOKI) A CLEVELAND The main line is laid with 6o-p(nnul T-rails on white oakties spaced 20 inches between centers and ballasted withgravel. It is difficult to detect low joints when riding overthe road. The line is single track with switches about fourmiles apart. The trolley wire is of Xo. 0000 hard <lrawTicopper, suspended from iron pipe brackets. There are threefeeders, two of 300,000 circular mils, and one of 200,000 cir-cular mils, whose aggregate length is nearly 26 miles. Tin-track is bonded with the Benedict & Burnham bond, oneto each joint, with 3fX),cxJO circular mil cables at switchesetc., two such cables being used at all broken connections. The route is through a rolling country and it was neces-sary to do considerable cutting and filling to bring the gradesdown to something within reason. On the main line themaximum grade is 6^ per cent, but on the line of the Akronconnection there is one grade of 13 per cent, i,fXX) feet long,and another of

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