The Street Railway Journal

Vul. VIII. MEW YORK $ CHICAGO, MARCH Mo. 3. Cincinnati Street Railways. page presents a very good idea of the exterior of the station. Fig. 2 on the following page is a view of Our readers are already familiar in a general way the interior of the engine and generator room, while with the transit facilities of this progressive city. All the Fig. 3 shows to the reader the appearance of the boiler leading systems of traction are employed, including elec- room. tric traction by the single and double trolley, with motors The engine room of the power station is 200 x 60 ft.; boiler room 200x40 ft. The steam equipment consists of three 1,000 h. p. Babcock tfc Wilcox boilers and four engines. Three of the engines are of the Corliss type, manufactured by Lane & Bodley, of Cincinnati, two of them have 28 x 60 ins. cylinders and one 24x60 ins. The fourth is a 100 h. p. engine manufactured by the Buckeye Engine Co., Salem, O. The present electric equipment consists of sixteen 80 h. p. T.-H. generators, of which thirteen are in daily service, to operate the three lines, known as the East End, Norwood and Avondale. The fly- wheels are twenty-two feet in diameter, with fifty inch faces, and the three belts, furnished by the Bradford Belting J Co. of Cincinnati, O., are forty-eight inches wide, and lead to six foot receiving pulleys. This power house was the scene of the recent accident when one of the heavy fly- FiG. I —EXTERIOR OF HUNT STREET STATION— CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY CO. of all the leading types; cable traction, both by the grip wheels burst, doing great damage to the building. This and incline plane systems, animal traction, for which both has since been repaired and a new fly-wheel manufactured horses and mules are employed. Electricity, however, is by the Walker Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland, O., sub- taking the lead, and soon the horse and mule will retire stituted. The Hoppes feed water heater is used. from the street railway field. Not only is rapid progress One of the most interesting sections of the city to being made in the development of transit facilities, but it a street railway manager is the corner at Fifth and is interesting to note that nearly all the work on various Walnut Streets, near Fountain Square, shown in Fig. 4. lines is being done by home talent and labor. Here 300 cars per hour pass, including the cars of the In our January, 1891, issue we gave a brief descrip- Walnut Hills and Vine Street cable lines East End, ; tion of the Hunt Street power station, then being built. Avondale, Colerain Avenue, and Norwood and Eden Park We now take pleasure in illustrating the same, and electric lines, trolley Main Street double T.-H. system ; describing its equipment. The engraving (Fig. on this electric, single trolley, Edison system Cincinnati and 1) ; 126 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. March, 1892, FIG. 2 -INTERIOR OF STATION-CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY. FIG. 3— INTERIOR OF BOILER ROOM—CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY, March, 1892. THE STREET RAILWAY JOUR NAT,. 127 South Covington electric double trolley, Short system, The New Broadway Cable Cars. and the horse cars of the John Street, Pifth, Sixth and Co., Ltd., report that the Seventh Streets, Clark Street, Farmount and Newport The John Stephenson cable cars will have a length of divisions. Broadway, New York, body That portion of single track on Walnut Street in of twenty-one feet, and length over all of thirty feet. A front of the Apollo Building, where the offices of the Cin- four wheel truck, having a nine foot wheel base, will be cinnati Street Railway Co. are located, as shown in the used. All will be box cars, and the seats will run length- engraving, probably does service to as diversified a traffic wise of the car, and will be covered with Wilton carpet. interior will firnisned in white ash, and the ceil- as can be found anywhere. It is constructed for a cable The be will of birdseye maple. There will be line, but, in addition to the cable cars, over it pass the ings have panels cars of three horse lines and two electrical lines, one op- nine high windows on each side. The cars will probably erated by the single trolley and the other by a double be painted with body of cadmium. trolley. For these two lines the wires are arranged so that the single conductor is placed between the other two. Hope Driving for Cable Hoads. trolley electric car ascend- Fig. 5 illustrates a double ing the Mt. Adams & Eden Park Incline, on board the Rope driving has been in use for years for the trans- platform of one of the incline cars. By this means the mission of power, but until a comparatively recent date electric cars ope- it had not been rate over different brought into use sections of track to take the place located in the busi- of gear driving. ness portions of The system, wc the city and on the believe, was re- heights. vived by Comb, Fig. 6 illustrates Barber & Comb, the foot of the eminent machine Cincinnati Incline makers of Belfast, Plane, and shows Ireland. Several an electric car just small installations boarding the in- were put down cline platform. An by that firm in interesting fact in the northern part connection with of Ireland not this arrangement many years ago. is, that the ap- From there it was proach of the elec- introduced into tric line to the foot Dundee by William of the incline is B a m b e r, cotton upon a grade, for spinner. It was a short distance, of soon afterwards thirteen per cent. adopted by other A full description firms, and quickly of the different became a very Cincinnati inclines popular system having been given for the transmis- in previous num- sion of power in bers of the Street England, and for Railway Journal, the last ten years, we omit further it is said, hardly notes in this con- any other method nection. has been applied for use in English A four wheel cotton mills. Not wagon for hauling only is this the street railway case, but an extra cable reels has FIG. 4.—CORNER OF WALNUT AND FIFTH STREETS, SHOWING DIFFERENT TYPES number of conver- been built for the OF STREET CARS. sions from gear Cleveland City driving have taken Cable Ry. Co., of Clevelaud, O. The weight of the wagon place. One of the largest rope drives in England, at empty is 9,000 lbs., and its guaranteed carrying capacity is Darwen, in the India Mills, furnishes a striking example 100,000 lbs. or fifty tons. The length of the bed between of such a conversion. These mills containing 85,000 axles is thirteen and a half feet and is composed of four spindles, are run by an engine of 2,000 indicated h.p. ten inch “I” beams hung under the axles. The side beams A thirty foot fly-wheel carrying thirty Lambeth cotton are drawn in at the front so that the front wheels can have ropes one and three-fourths inches in diameter, with a room to cut in when the front axle is turned. The bed is rope speed of 5,100 per minute, transmits the power five feet two inches wide, covered with four inch oak noted. The weight of the fly-wheel is upwards of sixty- plank. five tons. The axles are five by six inches in diameter, of Until within a very few years in the power stations of steel, and the two weigh 1,360 lbs. The wheels are forty- the cable roads in the United States the power was trans- four inches in diameter, with nine inch tread, tire being mitted from the engine to the large drum by spur gears, one and one quarter inches thick. The front axle is and on the large drum shaft was the initial drum, carry- shorter than the hind one, so that the wheels do not run ing the steel cable, but the continual noise and vibration in the same track, the object of which is to distribute the even with the adoption of wooden teeth, made a power sta- weight more evenly over the surface of the street to avoid tion in a thickly settled part of a city not a very desirable cutting through pavements. The wagon can be hauled neighbor. by team, traction engine or capstan, as may be desired. Belts could not be introduced to advantage on This wagon, which is considered to be the heaviest one account of the low speed and small driving wheels, and ever built was supplied by the Miller-Knobeck Wagon Co., would extremely expensive the width of belt required be ; of South Bend, Ind. to transmit the desired power, traveling at the slow rate 128 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. March, 1892. that is necessary under these circumstances, would be out pened where one of these ropes broke and became en- of all reason, and doubtless would be a cause of more or tangled in the others. less uncertainty, 1 For these reasons cotton ropes have Although each rope runs independently it is not neces- been introduced sary that all the very extensively ropes on one to take the place pulley should of gear driving. have just the In the new sys- same tension, but of tems cable it is of great im- roads, by the in- portance that the troduction of rope slack side should driving, we find be on top, and on the crank shaft that the ropes of the engine a should be short small balance enough not to wheel, where, un- bring the slack der the old sys- side in contact tem of spur gear- with the tight.

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