Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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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BULLOCK ENGINE—SAN ANTONIO STRBET RAILWAY. There is something Homeric, something grand inthese rough times, and no wonder the shaft that com-memorates these dead says: Thermopylse had its messenger of defeat,The Alamo had none. Then later, Houston with his half crazed troops boredown upon the Napoleon of Mexico at San Jacinto, andwith a cry, Remember the Alamo, the Americansrushed upon the Mexicans and in eight minutes not aMexican was in sight. Let us turn now from these exciting scenes and take alook at the San Antonio of to-day. The newer city has Pa., rolling mills. The grades encountered are all easy,the steepest being 3 per cent. THE ROLLING STOCK Consists of 3 motor and 4 trail cars, all 26 feet in length.Two 15-horse-power motors to each car are made by theThomson-Houston Company. Brills number 13 trucksare under the cars. The power station, shown in our engraving, is 70 by84 feet. Including car house and boiler room. The engine here inclosed is of the well known BullockManu

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