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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ars have fiverl wheel bise .ind in nrder In v.ifelv iiper;ile on lll<- slee(f irf.-ules 24 stki:i:t railway kk\ii-:\v. l\.ii.. XIV, No. and *liarp citrvc- the wliifl base has been shortened as much as pos-sible, the length Ijeing 5 fl. 6 in. This type of truck is betteradapted 10 the use of slipper brakes than bogie trucks. Ihese slipperbrakes with which the cars arc equipped arc often called into pUyowing to the steep grades in Sheffield and by means of these brakesthe weight of the car is taken almost entirely off the wheels and issupported by wooden brake blocks which slide upon the rails. Theelectric brakes with which the cars arc equipped are extremely pow-erful. Internal spring trolleys are now adopted for all double deckcars, having taken the place of the external spring trolleys whichwere formerly used. The trolleys haveto run at heights varyingfrom II ft. 6 in. to 21 ft. 6 in. and no tiouble has occurred to martheir successful operation. Most of the trolley heads were made
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ENGINE ROOM, SHEFFIELX) TRAMWAY SYSTEM. by R. \V. Ulackwell & Co., Ltd., London, and are of the sphericaltype with graphite bushed V-groovcd wheels. The question of dryseats for the top of double deck cars has been solved by the adop-tion of canopy tops, but in cases where canopy tops are not usedthe question has not been satisfactorily answered. Car Sheds. The car sheds at present erected are two in number. One ofthese, known as the Tinslcy car shed, accommodates 95 cars andcontains in addition repair shops, paint shed and brass foundry. Theother car shed is situated at Queens Road and has a capacity for84 cars, but extensive additions will soon be completed which willincrease its capacity to 129 cars. .Xt the Queens Road shed all ofthe tracks are laid on supporting cast iron columns, making it pos-sible to overhaul every car stored here in a thorough manner .-\tthe Tinsley shed this method of construction has only been partially adopted and several of the tracks have Iwen paved

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