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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Co., for the accompanying illustration. lln- ; 1 hauling standard cars to and from points mi tin Intel Urban companys Colfax line running from ix, la., a distance of 25 miles. The line through .1 large coal field and a rich farming district The dimensions of the locomotive are as follows: Height from rail ■ 1 body, i- ft. in in., height over trolley stand 1.1 ft. ? in.. length ma end -ill- 26 ft., extreme width S ft. .? in. The frame ed entirely of steel, the ~ill- consisting of two R-in.. 25-II.. channels. The bolsters are made of two to in., 35-lb, I beams bolted togcthei with pi etween them well fitted ti. the beams. 1 he ei 1 art- planed t tit the chan- nels and are held in place bj strong angle pi in. x << in. steel. All the corners of the frame are fastened by similar angle plates. The po 1 an all 6 x <■ in. oak fitted between the channels and the space between the posts 1- Riled with hard pine, tn which Ihe floor is nailed. This filling also cts the posts from any
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ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE FOR INTER-URBAN CO., DES MOINES, IA. sorts mi Long (aland arc handled in comparative safety and veryfew persons arc killed or injured, as compared with the numberriding. There are summer resorts located mar all of the smallersuch as Rochester, Syracuse, Im,a, Ubany, Bing-famestown and Auburn, to and from which therei- unusually heavy traffic during the summer season. 1 hiare carried and managed in Mich a manner that 11 1- Id, that a person is killed through any defect in the method of operation..r the equipment on these railroads. In conclusion. I may express the hope that, through the com-bined efforts of all interested, nest years convention will find yourlines throughout this state equipped and operated in snch a mannerthat the confidence of the public will he restored ill the safest andirafortable of all methods of transportation, the electric rail-road The Seattle Electric Co., ..wins to the growth of the city andthe increasing patronage of its cars, has recen

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