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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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ith one next season. If the plan is tried on electric in-terurbans, a flat car having a motor generator and step-uptransformer run from the trolley wire could be fitted upwithout a great deal of outlay. The capacity of theapparatus required depends on the speed it is proposed torun at over the road, and if it was practicable to do thework slowly the motor and generator could be small. TROLLEY CAR SPEED. How to calculate the speed of a trolley car is an inter-esting problem to anyone in the business, who happensto be riding faster or slower than he is accustomed. Italso has a fascination to the passenger with an enquiringmind. Various ways have been suggested, but thesimplest is to note the number of feet the car goes aminute and divide by 88, which will give you the numberof miles an hour, or rate of speed. A car moving atthe rate of one mile an hour will pass over 88 feet aminute. A speed of 176 feet a minute is at the rate of2 miles an hour; 352 feet, 4 miles; 528 feet, 6 miles; 704
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r Along the line of the (NIAGARA Falls Park & RiVER .MnERTISlNG POINTS oF INTERKST. HAS GONE TO KANSAS CITY. In the -Woodland avenue power house of the KansasCity Cable Railway Company has been installed anengine which has been seen by more people than anyengine in the world. On November i, 1893, this enginefinished its work in Machinery Hall, at the Worlds Fair.It is known as the Reynolds-Corliss type, and is capableof developing 2,000 horse-power. The foundations are42 feet long. The engine weighs 150 tons. Several changes have been made in the engine toadapt it to its new work. It will drive all the ropes ofthe Ninth street system, except Summit street, beingnearly 100,000 feet of cable. The old engines will becoupled together for use interchangeably with the newone. New cars will be put on the Ninth street incline,and plans have been prepared for a tunnel from Wash-ington street toward the depot. Ten freight cars werenecessary to transport the engine. The balance wheelweighs 7

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