Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
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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k rep ■ stock, trucl cai i>< idi< aches, express cars, freight cars, snow plows, dynamometers.etc., traffic maintenance, time tables, distribution of rolling stock,ag and disinfection, p department matters, freight nent matters and tariffs, methods and equipments for check-ing fares, and methods and equipment foi handling baggage andfreight, etc, will find place and be adequately presented. No smallsection of the Transportation Building will be given over i theexploitation of all the various mechanical details which chai/e the operation of urban and interurban electric railways. The other side of the elei raj picture will be shown in the Electricity Building. All matters relating to the generation and distribution of electricity and to the control of carsand train bj electrical ineth.NN. come in the electrical departmentproducing direct, simple, alternating andmultiphase currents; transformers, motor generators, boosters,rotaries, conduits, cables, wires, switches, switch-
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