. Electric railway gazette . View of Engines from: the of using two rails, one for a feeding and theother for working conductor, as at the Worlds Fair, theengineers have used a single rail for the conductor andheavy cables are used as feeders. Mechanical measure 36 and 72 x 48-inch stroke and those ofthe smaller engines are 23 and 46 x 48 stroke. The shaftsof the larger engines are 24 inches in diameter; the jour-nals 22 inches in diameter and the fly wheel is 24 feet in 166 STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XII. No. 17. diameter and weighs 70 tons. The shaft of the
. Electric railway gazette . View of Engines from: the of using two rails, one for a feeding and theother for working conductor, as at the Worlds Fair, theengineers have used a single rail for the conductor andheavy cables are used as feeders. Mechanical measure 36 and 72 x 48-inch stroke and those ofthe smaller engines are 23 and 46 x 48 stroke. The shaftsof the larger engines are 24 inches in diameter; the jour-nals 22 inches in diameter and the fly wheel is 24 feet in 166 STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XII. No. 17. diameter and weighs 70 tons. The shaft of the smallerengine is 20 inches in diameter, the journals 18 inchesin diameter and the fly-wheel, which is 18 feet in diam-eter, weighs 35 tons. The larger engines will run at75 revolutions per minute and the smaller at 100 revolu-tions per minute. The generators, which are directlycoupled to the engine shafts, are% of the standard Gen-eral Electric slow-speed multipolar type. Two gener- The arrangements for receiving fuel are ve
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