. The street railway review . ^inches in diameter, with a total heating area of 1,563square feet. The boilers are 22 feet 10j/^ inches highto the top of the bonnet, with a waist diameter of 53inches. The furnaces have an inside diameter of 66. AT THE TOP OF THE CLIME inches and a height of 44 inches. E. Hodge & Co., ofEast Boston, Mass., made the boilers, and the Q. Company, of New York City, the furnaces. pump is in use. The Hooven, Owens & Rentschler engines, so widelyand favorably known, and manufactured at Dayton, Ohio,are 12 by 30 reversible Corliss type, operating o
. The street railway review . ^inches in diameter, with a total heating area of 1,563square feet. The boilers are 22 feet 10j/^ inches highto the top of the bonnet, with a waist diameter of 53inches. The furnaces have an inside diameter of 66. AT THE TOP OF THE CLIME inches and a height of 44 inches. E. Hodge & Co., ofEast Boston, Mass., made the boilers, and the Q. Company, of New York City, the furnaces. pump is in use. The Hooven, Owens & Rentschler engines, so widelyand favorably known, and manufactured at Dayton, Ohio,are 12 by 30 reversible Corliss type, operating one shaft,which carries a pinion geared to two Walker differentialdrums, each of which is 12 feet in diameter, with 6 engines are geared in a ratio 22 to 100. From anoperating tower, the throttle valve, reversing lever andbrakes are controlled, as is also the cut-off gear. Thecables were manufactured by the old and reliable firm ofJohn A. Roebling Sons Company. It is of steel, with ahemp center, 7,250 feet long and 1^ inches in diameter,with a weight of 2^/2 pounds per lineal foot. The ends of the cables are attached to the two, oneascending and one descending, train. The portion ofthe rope on the right hand track asce
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