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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ed a charter. The New York & Queens County Railway Cos. new line be-tween Long Island City and Flushing was opened for traffic Decem-ber 15th. The new route reduces the running time between thesepoints by 20 minutes. The United Railways & Electric Co., of Baltimore, has erecteda new building at the park terminal station, to replace that whichwas burned last spring. The structure is divided into three com-partments to be used severally as a waiting room, car dispatchersoffice, and lunch room for employes. Jan 15. 1902.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 17 The California or Combination Car.—I. i:v W. E. lARTRIDi.i:. The California car has been for years the principal style ofstreet car used on the Pacific Coast. It might almost be termedthe only street car of that region. During the last half dozen they embody the leading characteristic of the type, that of bothopen and closed portions. So far as the comfort and convenienceof the passenger go the two styles are nearly the same, and with
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1 ORIGINAL OF THE I ai.i;KNia TYPE OF STREET CAR. years the type has been steadily working its way eastward Whet ever it has been introduced it has encountered strong oppo The climates of the middle and Atlantic states were said to be 1. ifil iia lie j ■ kLIFORNIA CAR ON 4-WBEEL TRUCK. • « / unsuitable for it. But in spite of this and many otl and prejudices it has won its way. and is in use in considerabl numbers as tar 1 ork. In the milder climates of the middli of the popular types In England tl ob tained a considerable popularity. I well with the double deck car and would probably take the place of that fori in both in England and on the continent but for the fact that the streets arc both narrow and cr double deck car gives a maximum capacity ior si given length. As t; the ■ the doubqii-nce. Strictly speaking the California cat hich has 1 n which tlopen form in wlif li built It mighl be di 1 ribedas a.r fa - The cars havlend at dosed 1 11 joined. I hese are ri

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