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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IMPROVEMENTS AT KEOKUK. I In Keokuk Electric Railway & Power Co. is planning someextensive improvements among which will be a new power house.I he plans fur tin- are all drawn up and the material has all beeni. Ihe boiler room of the present plant will be left stand-ing, but the engine room will be entirely rebuilt. A new switch-board and considerable electrical apparatus will be installed in thenew building. INCREASED WAGES AT ATLANTA. The Georgia Railway & Electric Co., of Atlanta, Ga., Inounced the following schedule for wages of motormen and con-ductor-., effective Dec I. 1902: During the first year. 14 cents per hour: during the second year.15 cents per hour; during the third, fourth and fifth year*. 17 centsper hour; after the fifth year. (8 cents per hour. The rates heretofore have been it cents fur the first year. 14 centsfor (lie second year, and 15 cents thereafter. ■»-•-• Ihe Baker City (Ore.) Rapid Transit Co. has been incorporatedwith a capital of $500,000.
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PIG. 2. oik of the drawhead is Short, the bearings for the springsbeing .m a malleable iron casting riveted to the outer end of aVjx8 in. bar which is pivoted on the king pin of the motor truck.Ihe springs are helical of I-i-in. stock, and 6s in. external di- \e\v York Supreme Court has held that the conduits forthe electric wires of the New York Rapid Transit Subway con-stitute a part of the equipment and are to be paid for as such andnut as a part of the subway construction. Nov. jo. 1902.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 861 LONDON. AYLMER & NORTH SHORE ELEC-TRIC RY. MERIT SYSTEM OPPOSED. This road will be a single track line about 45 miles in length,running from London i Port Burwell, Out., through the countiesof Middlesex and Elgin. The road will run through one of thefinest fanning sections in Canada and there are also numerousfactories along the line. The harbor at Port Burwell 1* one ofthe finest on Lake Erie, and it 1- expected, will open up a bigfreight traffic for ibis road. h i

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