The Street railway journal (1894) (14778783123)

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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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s have been verysatisfactory both on ac-count of the flexibilityof the connection andthe economy secured.During a test of the plantrecently concluded andextending over a periodof thirty days, an averageof 4.1 tons of coal wasused per day of eight-een hours, includingthe amount required inbanking the fires atnight. The number ofcars run during this timewas at no time less thansixteen, and on Satur-days, Sundays and holi-days as many as twenty-six cars were run. Asthe period included July4 and first ten days inJuly, the traffic was ex-ceptionally large. The roadbed is laidwith fifty, fifty-six andseventy pound rails, andthe cars are mostly fromthe works of J. M. JonesSons, of West Troy, N.Y., some of the New-buryport Car Manufac-turing Companys carsbeing also used. The officers of thecompany are: President,D. Correy; vice-president, C. A.Warren; sec-retary and treasurer, G.A. W. Dodge. Some ofthe officers and directorshave been connectedwith it or its prede-cessors for over twentyyears.
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49<5 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. X. No. 8 The System of Cable Handling in Use by the Chi=cago City Railway Company. By F. H. Fitch, C. E., Chicago City Ry. Co. Not one person in fifty of the general public knowsanything of the intricate working of the undergroundcable system. Most people see the gripman work hislever, but know nothing of the grip itself which is hiddenunderneath the car and in the tunnel. It is a daily occur-rence, when a grip is exposed, to hear exclamations of sur-prise at its size, some people evidently expecting tosee a machine about the size of a large mans hand. But less still is known of the work done be- .hind the scenes, of the anxiety of the chief engineeras he watches over a well worn and dangerouscable as a cat watches a mouse, of the nightly in-spection for a single loose or broken wire, of therapid yet systematic work of replacing an old by anew cable, which is done in the four hours betweenone oclock and five oclock in the morning. Thehandling