Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (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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shipped in about three months. To ensure the unloading of the freight and the erection of thecars upon their proper trucks the cars carrying the trucks weresandwiched in between those carrying the bodies. The cars are of the 8-bench open type, 24 ft. long over the crownpieces; the corner posts are set 4 ft. 4 in. back from the front of the The annual report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania for the year ending June 30, 1900,contains the report of Major I. B. Brown, superintendent of theBureau of Railways, to whom the Review is indebted for a copyof the official document. Following are extracts from this com-pilation of statistics: During the year there has been no material change in the finan-cial condition of the street railways in Pennsylvania. There hasbeen a pause in the onward march of the bicycle, which formerlymenaced the advancement of electric and especially electric inter-urban roads, and it is probable that today there are not more thm
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LARGE SHIPMENT OF BRILL CARS FOR PORTUGAL. crown pieces. The bodies in most respect conform to .\mericanpractice. Signal lights are provided at the left hand corner of themonitor and reversible destination signs are placed on the hoods.At the openings are spring roller curtains; the interior is finishedwith a three-ply maple headlining. Brill draw bars and Dedendagongs are included in the equipment. The car bodies were taken apart and packed in boxes; the trucks,with their motors mounted upon them, were loaded in pairs. Asthe boxes containing the floors and roofs were too large to go inordinary freight cars, the long Brill flat cars were used; afterloading the cars were housed in to protect them from the weather.The car on which the sign (which by the way was prepared for theentire shipment) is shown in our engraving, carried two cars. The Lisbon road, where these cars will be used, has sharp curves,36^^ ft. radius, and steep grades, the heaviest being 12 per cent.The trucks are of th

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