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Identifier: streetrailwayrev05amer (find matches)
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
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track. The equipping ofthe main or F street branch of the same system with theunderground system is dependent upon the success of theNinth street experiment. The F street line will call for13 miles more of single track, making 21 miles in all. The leakage so far has been too small to show on theammeter and too small to cause any spark when theswitches are thrown at the power house. The first tendays that the road was in operation the machinery wasrun 12 hours per day. Since then it has run to the fulllimit of 20 hours per day. During this time cars havebeen added gradually till at present writing there are tenoperating at intervals between the horse cars. While ithas not been possible to run the trains over the line atfull speed (9 miles per hour by police regulation) themotor trains have been speeded over short stretches andup grades without trouble with the underground contact. Since the road has been in operation several severerains have fallen. No attention was paid by the engin-
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THE PLOUGH. eers at the time to the depth of water in the conduit, butthe part of Four and a Half street over which the lineruns was flooded and the conduit showed perfect drainagewith no apparent electric leak. After one of these rainsthe first motor car that ran over the line came back with theplough or contact device banked with wet mud clearabove the insulation but no difference was perceptible inoperating the car. Draining the conduit is accomplishedby deep pits at intervals of 400 feet. These pits accum-

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