. The Street railway journal . rom Hullthrough Deschenes and Aylmer to QueensPark being double tracked throughout. intended at first to operate the line as asingle track road with turnouts, but this wasfound not to be feasible on account of thenumber of train units. The right of way wastherefore purchased outright from the C. and a second track was laid down. Therails are of steel, weighing 56 lbs. t£> the yard;and the ties cedar, of the standard dimen-sions, and laid 2,640 to the mile. On thewhole line the number of highway crossingsat grade is three, one overhead and one grade
. The Street railway journal . rom Hullthrough Deschenes and Aylmer to QueensPark being double tracked throughout. intended at first to operate the line as asingle track road with turnouts, but this wasfound not to be feasible on account of thenumber of train units. The right of way wastherefore purchased outright from the C. and a second track was laid down. Therails are of steel, weighing 56 lbs. t£> the yard;and the ties cedar, of the standard dimen-sions, and laid 2,640 to the mile. On thewhole line the number of highway crossingsat grade is three, one overhead and one gradecrossing being made over steam roads. Theheaviest gradient on the portion of the lineused for freight is 2 per cent.; there is oneshort grade of 264 ft. to the mile, on thebranch line running to the Queens Park, over whichthere is no freight service. POWER HOUSE In the power house located at Deschenes there are atpresent installed six 60 ins. new American vertical tur-bines, built by Kennedy & Sons, developing at the nor-. INTERIOR OF POWER STATION Its operation under these conditions was unprofitableand the Canadian Pacific Railroad was quite willing, whenapproached by capitalists interested in lumber mills andwater power along the line, to lease the property, consist-ing mainly of 10 miles of single track, for $5,000 per an-num. The equipment of the road, for electric traction, wasimmediately proceeded with, the power house being lo- mal head of 9 ft. 6 ins. 1,000 the jack shaft speedbeing 165 The railway generators consist of two steel frame ma-chines, of the Canadian General Electric Companys stand-ard type, having a capacity of 325 each. Power isalso furnished from the jack shaft to operate two 150 alternators, from which current is furnished JULY, [898.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL, 357 for the extensive lighting business of the Desehenes Elec-tric Light Company in Hull and the city of Ottawa. Thedifficulties usually experienced in speed regula
Size: 2083px × 1200px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
