Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (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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and axles from under the cars. The carpenter shop is equipped with a 30-in. Oliverhand planer and jointer, an Oliver saw bench and(inc wood lathe. The shop is driven by a ro-h. pWestinghouse shunt wound motor and is lighted bymeans of arc lamps. The company has been boringwheels on a lathe and getting good results, and sav-ing the investment, of a boring mill. Rolling Stock. The companys rolling stock consists of 19 passengcr cars, three express cars, one line car and onework car. Ten of the passenger cars are combina-tion passenger and smoking cars, 45 ft. long, built bythe Niles Car & Manufacturing Co., mounted onPeckham r4-A-XX trucks. F.ight cars were builtby the Kuhlinan Car Co., and arc 44 ft, long, Ihrecof Iheni Iwing combination passenger and bag-gage cars and five combination passenger and the advice which is frequently quoted to keep the cars moving.The schedule is arranged so that two cars pass every point onthe road every hour and while snow storms were in progress the
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CARIENTISH 8H01 AT \VAlAKONlSTA. 142 STkKKT RAILWAY REVIHW. IVml XIV, No. 3. cars have breii kept riiniiiiig all night, so as to pr.:vciit any accu-niiilation of snnw on the tracks. The pilots of the car* duringa snow storm arc covered with a sheathing of metal which lakesthe place of a plow. When the usual frequency of service overthe tracks was not suUicient to keep them clear, as was sometimesthe case in the long cuts, extra cars were sent out which operatedcontinuously hack and forth over these troublesome places. Operating Details. riiere is an hourly service on the first and second divisionsof the road in both directions between Lima and Iiiiua and be- bc oflf its schedule at any time its crew must either have an excellentexcuse for it or suffer the penalty therefor. All cars are run under dispatchers orders, although no specialorders arc given as long as the trains adhere to the schedulelime or, in other words, the schedule is the crews authority forrunning as long as the sched

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