. Electric railway gazette . orth Hudson County Railway of Hoboken, N. J. The North Hudson County Railway Company, of Hobo-ken, N. J., operates about 83 miles of electric, horse andsteam railways. In this extensive railway system are tobe found many features of engineering interest which maybe studied with great profit. The companys lines extendthrough Hoboken, Union Hill, Weehawken, West NewYork and Guttenburg. The principal eastern terminusis at the Barclay street ferry and a viaduct is constructed introduced as a motive power on the upper part of the line,and to prevent the necessity of tra
. Electric railway gazette . orth Hudson County Railway of Hoboken, N. J. The North Hudson County Railway Company, of Hobo-ken, N. J., operates about 83 miles of electric, horse andsteam railways. In this extensive railway system are tobe found many features of engineering interest which maybe studied with great profit. The companys lines extendthrough Hoboken, Union Hill, Weehawken, West NewYork and Guttenburg. The principal eastern terminusis at the Barclay street ferry and a viaduct is constructed introduced as a motive power on the upper part of the line,and to prevent the necessity of transferring passengers itwas decided to operate electric cars on the incline. As themotor cars proved entirely satisfactory, the cable line wasentirely abandoned and the cable machinery was sold forold iron. The companys power station is located at Palisade ave-nue, Ferry street and Ravine avenue. Its dimensions are200 by 100 feet, the first story being constructed of brickand the second of wood. Plenty of light is afforded by. FOURTEENTH STREET POWER STATION from this point to Jersey City Heights. The road is thenelevated for a distance of one and one-quarter miles to theCourt House. The elevated structure is similar in appear-ance to that in use in New York City. The second easternterminus is at the Hoboken ferry house of the Fourteenthstreet ferry, from which a line extends north to Weehaw-ken. The cars on the viaduct were operated by cable untilJune, J892. Shortly before that time electricity had been windows extending practically around the entire is furnished by two Watts-Campbell Corliss enginesof 500 hp each and three Ball single expansion engines of250 hp each. The Corliss engines were installed to operatethe cable winding machinery, but when that motive powerwas abandoned, they were employed to drive two multi-polar General Electric generators. The engine speed is 65revolutions per minute; in the cable work the speed wasonly 48 revolutions per minute. Eac
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