Identifier: streetrailway03amer (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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, Troy, N. Y.; motortruck for electric and cable railways, L. s. 18. Tilden B. E. Company, Chicago; car replacer, wreck-ing frogs and switches, X. n. 9. Trenton Iron Works, Trenton, N.J.; wire ropes andcables of every kind both steel and copper exhibits, bjCooper, Hewitt & Company, New York; Y. n. & Z.s. 4-5. Valley, John N., Jersey City, N. J.; model of elevatedrailway, W. s. lo-ii. (^io^d^llxcuWay-j^A^^ •273 Wheeler, Harris A., Chicago; street car seats, D. 8-17. Whitney, A. & Sons Car Wheel Works, Philadelphia;boxes and pedestals for street cars, K. n. 3-4. Wharton, Wm. Jr., & Company, Philadelphia; trackmaterial, frogs, switches and other appliances, L. n. 3. start before May ist. The electric motors and work ofthe General Electric Company will prove one of theirbest exhibits in propelling this novel, and, for its intendedpurposes, very practical system of transportation. Ourreaders cannot afford to miss seeing the moving sidewalk
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PLAN OF TRANSIORTATION BUILDING AND ANNEX. MAIN BUILDING MARKED B, C, D, E. Tirii movable sidewalk was completed and in readiness and will find the ride of 2,000 feet out into the lake a to run on April 15th, but owing to a delay in Machinery charming one, affording a splendid view of the White Hall, from which electric power is rented, was unable to City. 274 (^iJiecti^aiWayj\ey^ THE FERRIS WHEEL. ALMOST like a part of the anatomy of a big watch,the giant Ferris wheel looms up into the skyabove the Plaisance. It is intended for an obser-vatory and to this end G. W. G. Ferris has planned it.The wheel proper will be 250 feet in diameter, built ofstructural iron and the top will be 264 feet above theground. There will be practically two wheels, 28 feet 6inches apart and connected by bracings. The wheel willturn on a steel axle of enormous size, 33 inches diameter,45 feet 2 inches long and weighing 89,320 pounds. Itcost $35,000. It was forged at the Bethlehem IronWorks and shipped to thi

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