. The Street railway journal . nt within theKalgoorlie limits, and an additional 3pence to Boulder, with which placethe chief traffic exists. The construction has presented nounusual difficulties except those dueto the carrying out of any extensivework at an extreme distance from thebase of supply. The track construction is made upof 90-lb. 30-ft. 6-in. girder rails, dogspiked to 8-in. Jarrah ties, having The road surface is made upwith fine screened mining slag, which,when consolidated, makes a cementformation that is extremely hard anddurable. In excavating for the lineit was f
. The Street railway journal . nt within theKalgoorlie limits, and an additional 3pence to Boulder, with which placethe chief traffic exists. The construction has presented nounusual difficulties except those dueto the carrying out of any extensivework at an extreme distance from thebase of supply. The track construction is made upof 90-lb. 30-ft. 6-in. girder rails, dogspiked to 8-in. Jarrah ties, having The road surface is made upwith fine screened mining slag, which,when consolidated, makes a cementformation that is extremely hard anddurable. In excavating for the lineit was found necessary to blast outlong sections of the roadway, due tothe extreme hardness of this tracks are double bonded through-out with protected rail-bonds. The overhead wires are supportedon Jarrah poles, with both span andbracket type of construction. Doubletrolley wire of No. 00 B. & S. gagecopper wire extends over the entireroute, and is fed by some 10 miles of January 24, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. T39. VIEWS SHOWING PORTIONS OF THE ROAD IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION No. 0000 weatherproof wire. The rolling stock consists of fif-teen single and ten double truck cross-seated closed cars,and one 2600-gallon sprinkling car. The single-truck carsare equipped with two 35-hp General Electric Company mo-tors, and the double-truck cars with four motors of the samecapacity. Christensen independent motor-driven air brakesare employed on the larger cars. The car bodies and truckswere furnished by the J. G. Brill Company, of Philadelphia,the single cars being 19 ft. long, with capacity of twenty-eightpassengers, and the double cars 33 ft. long with a seating ca-pacity of fifty-two passengers. The double cars are furnishedwith two trolley poles. The car house is of steel, 300 ft. x 60 ft., covered with cor-rugated iron, all supplied by the American Bridge Company. The power is supplied to the Tramways Company by theKalgoorlie Electric Power & Lighting Corporation, Ltd., .who
Size: 1707px × 1464px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
