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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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is no obstruction to the useof the traveling crane. The crane is of seven tons capacityand is worked by hand. The switchboard is at tlie north end of tlic engine roomon a platform 8 ft. aliove the floor, commanding a full viewof the engines and generators; the switchboard has theusual complement of meters, circuit breakers and switches.Leading from this platform is the otiicc of the chief engineerwhere are a recording voltmeter, a recording steam gage anda telephone. Under the ofiice on the basement floor is thetest room equipped with instruments for testing the under-ground cables. These caV)Ies are carried from the station ina conduit through which the wires also return. Coal will be handled at this station by a trestle and coalpocket adjacent to and in the rear of the building. Fromthis pocket, through chutes leading from the bottom, it willbe loadeil into the coal or charging cars, which will run intothe boiler room on a narrow gage track. Ashes will beremoved over the same track.
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-171-6- IIAKVAKU IOWKK STATIO.N, WEST KNIJ STKI.KT KAIl.WAV, IIOSTON. 864 ^l3i£dS^Q\l)kV^S(g/^ QUICK-BREAK SWITCHES FOR RAILWAYWORK. THE PROPER CONSTRUCTION AND USEOF ECONOMIZERS. The General Electric Company has designed a line ofqnick-break, 500-volt switches which arc especially adaptedfor street railway service. As may be seen in the illustra-tion, the switch blade contact consists of two pieces connec-ted to a common hinge and by a pair of helical springs, oneon each side. In opening the switch the outer section ofthe blade, to which the insulated handle is attached, iswithdrawn to an angle of 30° before the inner section

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