Midland Beach Railway

Midland Beach Railway
Midland Beach Railway an der Pier
Streckenlänge:1800 Fuß; 0,550 km
Spurweite:12⅝ Zoll; 321 mm
0Terminus
0,550Pier

Die Midland Beach Railway Company auf Staten Island betrieb um 1903 eine Miniatureisenbahn in Midland Beach.

Betrieb

Die Strecke mit einer Spurweite von 321 mm (12⅝ Zoll) wurde auf der 550 m langen Pier in Midland Beach verlegt. Die Dampflokomotive war in jeder Hinsicht wie eine Standard-Dampflokomotive gebaut und konnte einen Zug mit neun Wagen ziehen. Ihre Länge betrug 1630 mm (5 Fuß 4 Zoll), ihre Breite 460 mm (18 Zoll) und ihre Höhe 710 mm (28 Zoll) von der Schiene bis zur Spitze des Schornsteins. Die Personenwagen waren 1.500 mm (5 Fuß) lang und 560 mm (22 Zoll) breit. Der Zug fuhr auf T-Schienen 8 Pfund pro Yard (4,0 kg/m).[1]

Lokomotive

Die Liliput-Lokomotive wurde von der Miniature Railroad Company in New York hergestellt. Ihre Miniatureisenbahnen haben sich sowohl in Straßenbahn-Parks als auch auf einigen Messen, wie der Panamerikanischen Ausstellung in Buffalo sowie denen in Omaha, Philadelphia und Charleston in den frühen 1900er Jahren als profitabel erwiesen. Einige der Straßenbahnparks, in denen diese Miniatureisenbahnen 1902 betrieben wurden, waren jene der Oil City Railway Company, Oil City (Pennsylvania), die West Chicago Street Railway Company und die Richmond Beach Railway Company.[1]

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Einzelnachweise

  1. ↑ a b Miniature locomotives for street railway parks. The Street railway journal, Band XXI (Band 21), Nr. 14, 4. April 1903, S. 538.

Koordinaten: 40° 34′ 8,8″ N, 74° 5′ 14,3″ W

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Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ub-station upon short notice, and,furthermore, the sub-stations, being of small size, are not asimportant with reference to the general power distribution asif they were large. He cites recent cases where the invest-ment in storage batteries would have enormously increasedthe sub-station investment for performing the same service.In other words, sub-stations having been reduced to thesmallest size of single unit that was advisable for supplyinga given section of the road, the addition of a battery meantthat much extra increase in sub-station investment. MINIATURE LOCOMOTIVES FOR STREET RAILWAY PARKS One of the devices which has proved profitable at street rail-way parks during the last year as well as at some of the recentfairs, like the Pan-.\merican, at Buffalo, and those at Omaha,Philadelphia and Charleston during the past two years, is thelilliputian locomotive, such as made by the Miniature RailroadCompany, of New ^ork. Some of the street railway parks at HFTY DOLLARS FOR AN IDEA
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MINIATURE LOCOMUIIVE FuR MIDLAND liEACil PIER which these machines have been run during the past year arethose of the Oil City Railway Company, Oil City, Pa.; the WestChicago Street Railway Company, the Richmond Beach Rail-way Company and the Midland Beach Railway Company, ofStaten Island. A view of the installation at the latter road is shown here-with. The track is laid on the pier at Midland Beach, whichis 1800 ft. in length, and the locomotive is designed to draw atrain of nine cars. The gage of the locomotive is 125^ ins., andit is built like a standard trunk line steam locomotive in everyparticular. Its length is 5 ft. 4 ins., its width 18 ins., and itsheight 28 ins. from the rail to the top of the smokestack. Thepassenger cars are 5 ft. long and 22 ins. wide, and the train runson a track laid with 8-lb. T-rails. STORAGE BATTERIES IN SUB-STATIONS Regarding the use of storage batteries in sub-stations on aninterurban railway, upon which there was an editorial in theStreet R.mlway

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