. The Street railway journal . 105 ft. of 75 ft., 80 ft. of 100 ft., 45 ft. of 175 ft., 35 ft. of200 ft., 230 ft. of 259 ft., and 13,234 ft. of tangent, makinga total length of 13,932 ft. The North Charles Street station is similar in con-struction to the other two. The driving gear in this sta-tion was supplied by the Robert Poole & Son Company,Walker differential drums being used. The engines havecylinders 20 and 30 X 60 ins. The steam plant and otherfixtures are the same as used in the other stations alreadymentioned. Only one rope is driven from this house. Itis driven from drums 8 ft. 6 i
. The Street railway journal . 105 ft. of 75 ft., 80 ft. of 100 ft., 45 ft. of 175 ft., 35 ft. of200 ft., 230 ft. of 259 ft., and 13,234 ft. of tangent, makinga total length of 13,932 ft. The North Charles Street station is similar in con-struction to the other two. The driving gear in this sta-tion was supplied by the Robert Poole & Son Company,Walker differential drums being used. The engines havecylinders 20 and 30 X 60 ins. The steam plant and otherfixtures are the same as used in the other stations alreadymentioned. Only one rope is driven from this house. Itis driven from drums 8 ft. 6 ins. diameter, the speedbeing 9^2 miles. This station has a car house attached,180 X 56 ft., with four plain tracks and two open for. FIGS. 13 AND 14.—SECTION AND PLAN OF DEPRESSOR—PASSENGER RAILWAY. inspection. This division of the road has the largestamount of curves, the length of each radius being as fol-lows: 442 ft. of 43 ft. radius, 151 ft. of 60 ft., 44 ft. of 100ft., 70 ft. of 150 ft., 32 ft. of 175 ft., 250 ft. of 200 ft., 125 250 ft., and 22,294 ft. of tangent, a total length of 23,-408 ft. The track on the lines of this company is laid withseventy-five pound girder rails from the PennsylvaniaSteel Company, a twenty-four inch splice with six boltsbeing used. Cast iron yokes are used, and the conduit ismade of Portland cement concrete with a foundation ofAmerican cement for the pavement. The Red and Whitelines were built by E. D. Smith & Son, of Philadelphia,and the Blue line by E. Saxton, of Kansas City. Thirty-six inch pulleys are used on the curves, with spiral groovedpulleys wherever the rope has a tendency to ride the fast ropes fourteen inch carrier sheaves are usedand ten inch
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