. Electric railway gazette . Pounds of water evaporated by 1 lb. coal, consumed for each horse power per hour, lbs. Coal ■ • lbs. Average daily run, 19 b. 30 stops per month, none. Average daily horse power, 19 b. 30 m 841 motor cars daily 69 trial cars daily 26 daily car mileage (motor) 123 • (trailer) , 62 horse power per motor car Pounds coal per motor carper mile water * The company now operates seventy electric cars equipped each with two General Electric 35 H. P. motors. The system now comprises 35 miles of track. For the accompanying illust
. Electric railway gazette . Pounds of water evaporated by 1 lb. coal, consumed for each horse power per hour, lbs. Coal ■ • lbs. Average daily run, 19 b. 30 stops per month, none. Average daily horse power, 19 b. 30 m 841 motor cars daily 69 trial cars daily 26 daily car mileage (motor) 123 • (trailer) , 62 horse power per motor car Pounds coal per motor carper mile water * The company now operates seventy electric cars equipped each with two General Electric 35 H. P. motors. The system now comprises 35 miles of track. For the accompanying illustration we are indebted to the Western Electrician. NORTH AND WEST CHICAGO ELECTRICRAILROADS. The North and West Chicago street railroadcompanies, the Yerkes systems, will do a greatamount of construction in the electric equipmentof the lines now operated by horses. The firsthorsecar line to be rebuilt will be Van Burenstreet. It will be entirely rebuilt for three milesfrom Halsted street west. The electric cars will be. POWbR PLANT OF THE CASS AVENUE & FAIR GROUNDS RAILWAY COMPANY, ST. LOUIS. machines are of the General Electric multipolartype for street railway work and run at speeds of93 and 150 revolutions per minute, the largermachines having 10 poles and the smaller one sixpoles. These generators are directly connected tofour Reynolds-Corliss engines,made by the EdwardP. Allis Company, of Milwaukee. Three of these areof 1,000 indicated H. p. capacity, the cylindersmeasuring 34 by 60 inches, and the machines run-ning at a speed of about 93 revolutions per cylinders of the smaller engine are 18 by 36inches, and it runs at the speed of 150 revolutions aminute. All the engines are of the single cylinder,non-condensing type. The flywheels of the largemachines are 30 feet in diampter. The largerengines have been worked up to 1,500 H. p., 50 percent, more than their indicated capacity. Thestation equipment has, in faot, so far exceeded itscalculated capacity that
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