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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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charge by gravity into thecars, the materials being raised to them by bucket con-veyors. The total amount of concrete in the cut is about40,000 cu. yds., and it was placed at a rate as high as 180cu. yds. per day per mixer. South of the Long Island Railroad crossing the workwas carried on without the inconvenience experienced inthe cut. The work consisted merely in making the em-bankment, and, since the Brighton Beach trains were oper-ated over the Manhattan Beach tracks, no special provisionfor regular traffic was required. Considerable temporary enough to discharge by gravity into the cars provided forhauling away the sorted and washed material. Near thescreening plant is a crusher made by the Good Roads Ma-chinery Company, a gravel pit, a blacksmith shop and acement warehouse. Owing to the high cost of water, $1per 1000 cu. ft., the contractor determined to secure an in-dependent supply, and accordingly sank a 3-in. well andinstalled an electrically-driven pump. A supply pipe, with
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A VIEW ALONG THE )!RiGHTON BEACH LINE NEAR A STATION taps every 400 ft., was laid the entire length of the work,and furnished a handy supply for concrete, the enginesand the steam shovel. The pump was a triplex pump witha capacity of 60 gals, per minute, and was made by thePiatt Iron Works. It was driven by a lo-hp, 500-voltGeneral Electric motor, supplied with power from the trol-ley wires. The installation, allowing for the depreciationof the plant, has reduced the cost to about half of thecharge for city service. The contractor used three Mogullocomotives weighing 60,000 lbs. each, forty flat cars witha capacity of 50,000 lbs., and thirty-six 6^yd. Oliver dumpcars. The work is under the supervision of the Brooklyn Grade May II, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 833 Crossing Commission, J. H. Dwyer being engineer incharge; H. B. Snell, principal assistant engineer, and C.T. Bissell, resident engineer. All the work in the cut andthe filling as far south as Avenue O is being done by Char

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