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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ter belt railroad line enables itto make direct connections with all railroads running into Chicago.ensuring prompt shipments and low rates. The companys work atpresent covers bridge and structural work extending over a large blocks. Its length is 76 ft. and the roadway is 42 ft. wide with a12 ft. sidewalk on each side. This company also builds steel culvert pipes, many of which havebeen placed on Street railways and highways and have been foundvery satisfactory. In many places these pipes save the building ofbridges and as they can be put in place more readily than other cul-verts, their use has been found very desirable for street railwaywork. The acccompanying cut shows one of these culverts thediameter of which is irt ft. and length 140 ft. This culvert waserected in 1898 in the Illinois Michigan canal at Marseilles. 111. Thecompany is prepared to build these culverts in any sizes from 18 in.in diameter up. The president of the Joliet Bridge & Iron Co. is Mr. Robert CMorrison.
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BRIDGE OVBR DBS PLAINES RIVER—JOLIET BRIDGE & IRON CO. territory including the states of California. Montana, Dakota, Michi-gan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.While this companys annual capacity at starting was but 10.000tons of product its growth has reached a present capacity of 50,000tons of finished product per year. Among its contracts which arenow being filled may be mentioned the public market sheds of St.Paul, Minn.; the postoffice at Los Angeles, Cal.; the postoffice atHelena, Mont.; the factory of the Peerless Portland Cement Co., ofUnion City, Mich., the buildings of the Economy Light & PowerCo., of Joliet, and the three-span bridge over the Fox River at UNIFORMS.

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