. The Street railway journal . CONSTRUCTION WORK AT KANSAS CITY. COMPLICATED CURVE AT KANSAS CITY from individual forgings, which are hammered thoroughly to pro-duce a very close grain and hard metal. The engine room, in one end of this building, has a 250-hp hori-zontal Allis Corliss engine, belted to a 220-volt 150-kw. GeneralElectric generator. The switch board has Cutter circuit breakers,and Weston instruments. The boiler plant consists of three 80-hptubular boilers. The shops are heated with hot air. The factorys railroad facilities could hardly be improved upon, brought out, it was accep
. The Street railway journal . CONSTRUCTION WORK AT KANSAS CITY. COMPLICATED CURVE AT KANSAS CITY from individual forgings, which are hammered thoroughly to pro-duce a very close grain and hard metal. The engine room, in one end of this building, has a 250-hp hori-zontal Allis Corliss engine, belted to a 220-volt 150-kw. GeneralElectric generator. The switch board has Cutter circuit breakers,and Weston instruments. The boiler plant consists of three 80-hptubular boilers. The shops are heated with hot air. The factorys railroad facilities could hardly be improved upon, brought out, it was accepted with a great deal of hesitancy by streetrailway men and engineers, but actual practice has long sincedemonstrated its success, and it is now standard construction onall roads throughout the world. The Falk Company has weldednearly 1,000,000 joints. At the suggestion of railway men, for whom the company wasalready doing work, the manufacture of special work was takenup, and this department has grown until the Falk Company is now July 7, 1900. J STREET RAILW
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