Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (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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addition to lin-ear equipment, the road own- two locomotives, ten freight and away car. used m the -team freight business. The repair shops ai located at Roseville, and embrace a machine I carpenter shop, armature room, blacksmith shop, storage room. etc. The machine shop contains two good lathes, two drilla haper, emery wheels, etc.. etc. I la armature r n contain- two coil winding machine-, a press for shaping held coil-, several hand presses for armature coils, aspecial machine for bending Rat ribbon used in Walker armaturesami the usual bench tool- ami bam There are five car houses along the line, located a- follows:tine brick barn at Roseville, capacity about to large 55-ft cars; onebrick barn in Ml. Clemens, capacity four large cars; one iron shedin \lt. Clemens, capacity 12 to 16 large car-; one frame barn atMarine City, capacity -i\ large car-; one large buck and ironbarn in Port Huron, capacity about 30 large cars. The officers of the company are as follow-: President, J. C.
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MAIL ami PASSENGER i.lks RAPID RAILWAY SYSTEM BARNEY .v smith COMPANY. Iriven air compressers, ami the rest are those of the Chris of Milwaukee. Each car is provided with a tra\i and stand, by mean- of which the Stand can be moved from one end of the car to the other nack. Thi handled by 11. I.. Walker here in this issue. All the car-are heated with the Peter Smith hot water heater, which hasproved t b Factory and a very cheap method of heating. A -.If oiling trolley harp and wheel is used which hasgiven very good service, tin- life ol some wheels being over 10.000 There are four differ, nt equipment in U! Hutchins; vice-president, 1. W. Brooks; treasurer, Geo. II. Rus-sell; general manager, F. W. Brooks; general superintendent, W. 0. W 1: chief engineer. A. C Marshall; division superintend-ents, F. C. Hill. C. A. CuKer: mad master, A. X. Paisley; gforeman motive power ami car department, Cha-. Mear. PERSONAL. Mr. F. W. BROOKS began his railroad experience immediatelyeaving college, i

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