Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (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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withtransportation companies of this kind, and is entirely competent topromote and manage such excursions. In planning tlie^construction of electric surface roads, one aim,and a natural one, has been to reach or have on the riglit of wayas many attractive features as possible. The roads throughoutEastern Massachusetts are especially favored in this regard, and atrip over almost any one of them affords a pleasant ride. Mr.Derrah will be glad to arrange with private j)arties, clubs, picnics,conventions, and any and all people wishing to get up a novel andinteresting trolley excursion. He can show maps of routes, givefull particulars as to attractions, and will provide any refreshmentsand entertainment desired. Mr. Derrah can be reached by mail orin person at Room 3, No. 113 Devonshire St. Boston, Mass. Mr. Derrah entered the service of the West End Street RailwayCo., May 3, 1889. when Henry M. Whitney was president, as officeboy; when Mr. Little became president in 1S93, Mr. Derrah was
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MlGUIRE no. 30 PIVOTAL TKUCK. HIGH SPEED TRUCK. We illustrate a type of truck which is the latest production of theMcGuire Manufacturing Co., and which is one of a large orderbeing sent to the South Bend (Ind.) Street Ry. These trucks areguaranteed to run 50 miles an hour under a car body of 50,000 lb.weight. The company states that the same load might be carried ata speed of 100 miles with safety. The truck is built under the CIoud-McGuire patents, which feat-ure it is claimed permits the frame to carry the car body lower thanany other of the same strength. The outlines show simplicity and strength. The only springs insight are those over the journal bo.x supporting the side frames, butthere are elliptic springs housed under the bolster of sufficient ca-pacity to carry the load and insure soft and easy motion. Alto-gether it is one of the most interesting trucks for electric railwaypurposes. While it has many desirable points, the three mainones are: First, short wheel base, to facil

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