Identifier: streetrailwayrev05amer (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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ied/lf^aiUa)^j\^ 131 LARGE DIRECT CONNECTED UNIT. CAUGHT ON THE RUSH TRIP. The Akron Street Railway Company, of Akron, O.,has recently installed a 300-horse-power McEwen engine,direct connected to a Walker generator. Our illustra-tion shows the generator and engine. The engine isa 19 by 24-inch, making 150 revolutions per minute,built by tne J. H. McEwen Manufacturing Company, ofRidgway, Pa., and was selected on account of its closeregulation. One additional unit of the same capacity hasbeen ordered. Cars of the Akron Street Railway Com- The original franchise of the Fort Wayne & Belle IsleStreet Railway Company, at Detroit, Mich., has justexpired. It was granted January 31, 1865, and onlythree of the many who subscribed to the stock at thattime are now with the company. Secretary Goodwinhas been with the company twenty years, SuperintendentD. S. Hazard and Conductor Henry Helmiller eachtwenty-eight years, while Foreman Joseph Longworthhas been repairing its cars for thirty years.
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MC EWEN ENGINE DIRECT CONNECTED TO WALKER GENERATOR. pany are being equipped with motors furnished by theWalker Manufacturing Company, of Cleveland, O.,which also furnished the generator. Three direct connected units of 500 horse-power, ofthe McEwen and Walker make, have been purchased bythe Schuylkill Electric Railway Company, of Pottsville,Pa. Fourteen of the Schuylkill Companys long doubletruck cars are to equipped for fast interurban traffic with50-horse-power Walker motors. Haley, Cavanagh & Co., 451 the Rookery, Chicago,have been awarded the contract for fifteen miles of thedeck of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated RailroadCompany, which they are now constructing. When the electric line at Freeport, 111., was opened, arather novel method was employed in educating the pub-lic to a high speed. From the first trip cars were run atmaximum speed, and the result has been satisfactory.The manager reasoned if he started slowly, and thenincreased speed, the public would not realize

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