Identifier: electricrailwayr17amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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er scale or blue vitriol. Metallic scrap copper may be melted in reverberatoryfurnaces of similar design to those used in the copper miningdistricts. The slag skimmed off consists of impurities origi-nally contained in the charge, and combinations of copperwith oxygen and the fire brick lining of the furnace. Theslag may contain from 30 to 70 per cent copper, which isrecovered by smelting in a cupola or a small round waterjacketed blast furnace. Certain processes of manufacture yield some very dirtyscrap mixed with grease and refuse, which appears almostworthless. If the metal is present in paying quantities, how-ever, it can be recovered, no matter how polluted, by judi-ciously drying, sorting and smelting.—Copper and Brass. HANDLING A CIRCUS TRAIN. The accompanying illustration shows two of the powerfulsingle-phase locomotives of the Spokane & Inland divisionof the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad system, coupled toa circus train. This train comprised 23 cars, owned by the
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Handling a Circus Train on the Inland Empire System. The water tank, with a capacity of 600 gallons, is built intothe underframe of the car. The air brakes are of the West-inghouse type, the air compressor being mounted on thetrailer truck. The lighting is by Commercial acetylene gasand the car is heated by steam. The car is designed to makea s)>eed of 40 miles an hour on level track and 15 miles anhour on 2 per cent grades, and will haul a trailer at a speed Sells-Floto Circus Company, aggregating 2,300 tons, and includ-ing five 60-foot Pullman coaches, seven standard stock carsand eleven 60-foot flat cars. This train was hauled for adistance of 76 miles over the Spokane & Inland division ofthe Inland Empire system, from Palouse to Spokane, Wash.,where the circus exhibited on the new grounds east of thecity, owned by the electric railway company. June 29, 1907. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW si:. THE WORK OF THE CHICAGO SANITARY DISTRICT. An extra meeting of the Western Society of En

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