. The Street railway journal . en minutes headway, and will make twenty-five round trips a day. Six cars will take care ofthe normal traffic and will make an average of 560car miles per day. The power station is located on the RiverRhone. The generators are six-pole machines,and are directly connected to horizontal Picardturbines. Each dynamo is rated at 150 k. w. The trolley wire is of galvanized steel in thecenter portions of the city, in order to obtainmaximum strength; on the rest of the distance it is of steel poles of a height of twenty-two feet are used, and areset in the
. The Street railway journal . en minutes headway, and will make twenty-five round trips a day. Six cars will take care ofthe normal traffic and will make an average of 560car miles per day. The power station is located on the RiverRhone. The generators are six-pole machines,and are directly connected to horizontal Picardturbines. Each dynamo is rated at 150 k. w. The trolley wire is of galvanized steel in thecenter portions of the city, in order to obtainmaximum strength; on the rest of the distance it is of steel poles of a height of twenty-two feet are used, and areset in the ground to the depth of five feet. Two types of rails areused. In the central jDortions of the city it is of the Marsillon sec-tion, the rails being laid on ties. On the rest of the distance the railsare of the Phoenix type. They are in lengths of thirty-six feet. Themaximum grade is five and one-half per cent, and the minimmnradius of ciurves is eighty-three feet. The cars are of the double deck type, and hold thirty-two pas-. DOUBLE TENONING MACHINE. ing the angle of the cut and length of tenon. Therej are fourchanges of feed, varying from fifteen feet to forty-five feet per min-ute. This machine is built by J. A. Fay & Company. A COMPANY headed by Tom L. Johnson is said to be plan-ning a S3stem of electric railwaj-s to connect all the important townsin Central Ohio. The prospective lines so far favorably consideredwill aggregate over 400 miles. 254 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XII. No. 4- A Combined Separator and Steam Receiver. The fall of pressure that takes place between the boiler and theengine, due to the fact that the volume of steam necessary for onestroke of the engine has to be drawn from the boiler through a longand sinuous pipe dtiring the short period of admission which in anordinar} Corliss engine is only one-fifth to one-quarter of the stroke, Westinghouse engines at the new power house of the first mentionedcompany on East Twenty-eighth Street, New York. Acco
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