Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (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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442 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. IX, No. 7. heavy pieces. The tracks are I-beams supported as shown inthe ilhistrations by rovls from the roof tnis.scs and bracketsattached to tlic walls. The floor plan of the shops showsthe location of the main and branch lines. Instead of the ordinary tongue switches at the junctionpoints of th.e traveler system there are trolleys moving on switch is the invention of Mr. .Sm-ad, of tlu Sncad-VanAlstine-Meldruni Co., of Louisville. The power house is located at one side of the system, thesupply of condensing water having been the controllingfactor in choosing a site. The building is of brick; the roofis tin lined with sheet iron and asbestos. The power house

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