. The street railway review . n each side to two outboard hearings, ami on each end is aJ^i^-kilowatt General Electric railwa\ generator. The engineis 14 ft. feet high, 17 feet long and 91^ feet wide. The aim THE CONNECTICUT PARALLEL. For many years the steam railroads have controlled thestate legislature of Connecticut; hence there was little sur-prise, though much public dissatisfaction, when the rail-road interest throttled electric interurbans. At first the fightwas made at crossing points, where electric lines wereobliged to cross the right of way of the steam lines. Hutfailing here, the
. The street railway review . n each side to two outboard hearings, ami on each end is aJ^i^-kilowatt General Electric railwa\ generator. The engineis 14 ft. feet high, 17 feet long and 91^ feet wide. The aim THE CONNECTICUT PARALLEL. For many years the steam railroads have controlled thestate legislature of Connecticut; hence there was little sur-prise, though much public dissatisfaction, when the rail-road interest throttled electric interurbans. At first the fightwas made at crossing points, where electric lines wereobliged to cross the right of way of the steam lines. Hutfailing here, the legislature was appealed to, in the effort toprevent this new and vigorous competition which wasbecoming stronger each year. In 1893 the famous statuteagainst paralleling was passed, which reads No streetrailway shall hereafter be built or extended from onetown to another town in the public highways so as toparallel any other street railway or steam railroad, unlessauthorized by special charter prior to January i, 1893, until. ELEVATION BALL ENGINE—CARPENTERSVILLE, ELGIN * AURORA RAILWAV. of llu- (Icsigners of this engine was to build a high speedupright engine, with enclosed housings, double acting steamcylinders and easily accessible shaft boxing, a combinationwhich would make a very desirable engine. The introduc-tion of the shaft into this engine is accomplished by arrang-ing the shaft boxes in a large jaw cutting into one side of thehousing deep enough to bring the center of the shaft in aplane with the center of the housing, finished spots beingpro\ided to meet corresponding finished surfaces on the castiron boxes. These boxes consist of one bottom, two cjuarterand one top box for each journal. Each of these are pro-vided with removable babbitt metal shells, upon which thejournals bear. These shaft box jaws in the housing areclosed by the use of heavy struts. As shown by the draw-ing these strulN lit into \-shaped grooves, so that whenbulled in tight the j:i\v is lirudy
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