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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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ft. to 6 ft. deep. The main-tenance charges during the five years were limited to thecost of transferring the equipment to and from the plow toopen cars, and the cost of inspection, oiling and painting. A Wilder radial snow plow built for the Cape BretonElectric Company, Ltd., Stone & Webster Engineering Cor-poration, general managers, is illustrated herewith. Theplow is known as Std. style, Size No. i. Style A, singletrack. It weighs 38,000 lb. without ballast and electricalequipment. The timber entering into its construction wasof oak and yellow pine. It has double glass windows andis equipped for air throughout, the noses, wings, scrapers, flange and 3-in. tread. The axles are cold rolled, 4^ in.in diameter and the journals 3%-in. x 7-in. M. C. B. Stand-ard. The equipment includes Westinghouse air equipment,Symington journal boxes, Ajax brasses, Wilder pneumaticSanders, Ridlon overhead gongs. The plow is painted trac-tion yellow with aluminum lettering. TURBINE PLANT FOR CAIRO
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PLOW FOR CAPE BRETON ELECTRIC RAILWAY Sanders, brakes, etc., being in complete control of the motor-man. The general dimensions are as follows: Length, 40ft. 6 in.; extreme height, 11 ft. 8 in.; height moldboard, 6 ft.6 in.; width, 8 ft. 4 in.; width wings out, 12 ft. 4 in.; truckwheel base, 6 ft. 6 in. The wheels are 33 in. with J^-in. Willans & Robinson, Ltd., of Rugby, Eng., have recentlyshipped a turbo-alternator to Cairo for the Cairo ElectricRailways & Heliopolis Oasis Company to supply power forworking a railway in the suburbs of Cairo running out intothe Heliopolis Oasis. The turbine is of 3000-kw normalcapacity, running at a speed of 1500 r.p.m., and is capableof an overload of 25 per cent for two hours and 50 per centfor short periods. It will work with steam at 176 lb. pres-sure at the stop valve, 190 deg. Fahr. superheat when ex-hausting into a vacuum of 27 in. to 28 in. with the barometerat 30 in. The turbine, which was built to the specificationsof A. Delia Ricci

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