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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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Buffalo and Ewing avenues, with cross lines at Seventy-ninth and Ninety-second streets, and on One Hundredand Sixth street from the Calumet Iron & Steel Com-panys works to the state line at Indiana, the proposedterminus of the Hammond, East Chicago & WhitingElectric Railway. CARS. The present car equipment consists of twenty-five St.Louis Car Companys 18-foot bodies (closed), mountedon McGuire 7-foot trucks, with Griffin 33-inch wheels. and the car barn is separated from the main buildings bja 17-inch fire wall. This barn is 228x75, with a capacityof sixty-five cars. Tracks are all on trestles four feethigh. The offices front on Ewing avenue, as will be seenfrom the ground plan, and occupy two stories. Thepower room, behind the offices, at present contains threeAUis 22x48 simple condensirig Corliss engines, of verj-heavy pattern. These are belted direct to three Edisonbi-polar, 200 kilo-watt generators, by means of Schieren27-inch perforated belts. The dynamo pulleys are 44-
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ELEVATION — SOUTH CHICAGO POWER HOUSE These are fitted with two 25-horse-power, single reduc-tion, Westinghouse motors. In addition, contracts havebeen let for twenty open motor cars (21-foot bodies) tothe Brownell Car Company, and twenty-five open trailerswith 25-foot bodies to another well-known company.Trolleys will be the Nuttall with steel poles. Lewis &Fowler stoves will furnish the heat. inch and run at 450 revolutions. One feature of these unitsthat we firmly believe is in the line of future progress isthe use of very heavy built-up engine fly wheels. Theseare made in eight sections and weigh 45,000 pounds, or22,000 pounds more than the regular fly wheels for suchengines. They are twenty feet in diameter with 30-inchface, running at seventy-eight revolutions per minute. It 158 will be seen that the engine room has an ultimate capac-ity of five units. The engine foundations are set on a bedof concrete 100x40 by 5 thick, reaching the whole widthof the engine room. On this

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