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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in the AdministrationBuilding. The satisfactory action of the McEwen engine,its cool running and its quietness are points clearly visible ELECTRIC LINE ON ST. CLAIR STREET,CLEVELAND. THE work of changing the St. Clair street lineCleveland, from horse to electricity is progressingnicely. Additional engine power is being put inthe station of the cable road for the purpose, the selec-tion having been a 300-horse-power Bass engine of theCorliss type. The track is being relaid with 90 poundgirder, nine inches deep, laid on ties spaced to two feet,and spliced with a 38-inch joint splice, using 12 one-inchbolts. When completed there will be no better in thecity. Wires will also be placed over the Superior streetcable Hne to enable the West Side electrics which cameinto the consolidation, to operate into the East Side. Whenin working order alternate cable and electric cars will usethat line from the viaduct east. The cable cars will notbe abandoned as reported in several electrical journals.
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MCEWEN ENGINE AT WORLDS FAIR, and to assure the buyers that everything is as represented,a fine brass sign shows the following guarantee. Thisguarantee reads:— The engine shall not run one revolution slower whenfully loaded than when running empty and a reduction ofboiler pressure from the greatest to that necessary to dothe work will not reduce the speed of the engine one rev-olution. Any engine failing to meet this guaranteebecomes the property of the purchaser upon the paymentof$i. In New Orleans some malicious person placed a pistolcartridge on the street car track. When the conductorof the first car to pass, ran ahead to signal his car over arailroad crossing, the bullet was exploded and woundedhim in the leg. ELECTRICITY DRAWS THE TRAFFIC. S INCE some time in May, the Thirty-fifth, Forth-seventh and Sixty-first street lines of the ChicagoV^ ^ City railway have been operating with electricity.The records of passengers carried for June 1892, andJune 1893 are interesting studies.

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