. The Street railway journal . s designed to decrease such absurdwaste. It was constructed from an old dining car, easilyruns 40 miles per hour, stops comfortably in less than 500ft. and develops a speed of 30 miles an hour in one min-ute from a dead stop. The driving machinery and boiler are carried on theforward truck, which is swiveled to the car on a ball bear-ing consisting of 125 1% iu. steel balls. The cylinders are12 ins. X T6 ins. stroke, and the driving wheels 42 The boiler is vertical, carries a pressure of 200lbs. per square inch, is equipped with a Reagan water grate
. The Street railway journal . s designed to decrease such absurdwaste. It was constructed from an old dining car, easilyruns 40 miles per hour, stops comfortably in less than 500ft. and develops a speed of 30 miles an hour in one min-ute from a dead stop. The driving machinery and boiler are carried on theforward truck, which is swiveled to the car on a ball bear-ing consisting of 125 1% iu. steel balls. The cylinders are12 ins. X T6 ins. stroke, and the driving wheels 42 The boiler is vertical, carries a pressure of 200lbs. per square inch, is equipped with a Reagan water grateand is fed by two Hancock inspirators. There are twowater tanks, each 24 ins. diameter X 3° ft. long, sus- The accompanying engraving gives a birdseye viewof the new southern Union station in Boston and adjacentstreets as they will appear when the work has been com-pleted. The view, which is taken from the Boston Herald,is supposed to be taken from a point above the junctionof Summer and Purchase Streets. The roof area of the.
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