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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ed by the Ches-holm & Moore Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland. O. This con-cern, which is the successor to the American Rail Joint & Manu-facturing Co., has introduced a number of improvements with thepresent season, which made an interesting exhibit. One of thenotable features of this display was the locking device for railjoints which lies underneath the rail and when driven up makesone continuous plate to rest upon the ties. Col. W. E. Ludlow, incharge of the rail joint department, represented the company. The Weber Railway Joint Manufacturing Co. had an interestingdisplay of the different forms of rail joints which it makes. Theseincluded girder joints, T-rail joints, insulated joints, and compro-mise joints. The Ramapo Iron Works, of Hillburn, N. Y., licensee of the.American Brake Shoe Co., exhibited a line of Diamond S brakeshoes which are well and favorably known among electric railwaymen. These shoes are used extensively on foreign as well as Amer-ican electric railways.
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RENWICK BEACH PARK. the special courses to be developed at Cornell, having been author-ized as early as 1870, and dwelt at some length on the work ofSibley College. Pres. H. H. Vreeland, of the Metropolitan StreetRailway, New York, discussed Rapid Transit in a brief speech. Wednesday the delegates went to the University Campus by trolleycars, the Duplex cars owned by the company being put at thedisposal of the party. After viewing the gorges and other inter-esting points on the line a business meeting was held in the SibleyCollege lecture room. After this session the University buildingswere inspected, and at 3 oclock the party started for the steamerlanding, where they embarked for a trip up Lake Cayuga. Refresh-ments were served on board, and this proved a most enjoyable trip. EXHIBITION NOTES. The Morris Electric Co., of 15 Cortlandt St., New York,, occu-pied the parlors on the first floor of the Ithaca Hotel with an ex-hibit which included a full line of everything handled by this

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