Identifier: streetrailwayrev06amer (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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as on steam roads. The road is already doing a splendid business, and isdestined to be one of the best interurban properties inthe country. Its trains of three 40-foot cars, as theyloop around the cable building, present a most pleasingsight, especially at night, with their brilliant illumination. Laborers in the employ of a contractor engaged inthe work for the Newark & South Orange, N. J., StreetRailway Company came into collision with the trusteesof the village of South Orange, June 28. They werelaying a double switch and the trustees tried to stop thework on the ground that the franchise allowed only asingle switch. Failing in their endeavors the tire depart-ment came to the rescue with their hose. The Italiansresponded to the stream of water with stones, and foran hour the fight was kept up, or until the contractorappeared on the scene. There were several injuries oneach side. The place was put under the control of thepolice and work stopped for the time being.
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IlGllKK 7. ^l5icd.!)\aiWxi^j^yle\^ 435 THE DAYTON-MIAMISBURG (O.) ROAD. The Dayton Traction Company in connecting Daytonand Miamisburg with an electric road followed steamrailroad practice closely. The line is nearly direct andthe few curves there are have such large radius that theyare not objectionable. The roadbed is graded to a properelevation above the surrounding country and furnishedwith a complete system of stone, brick and pipe culverts.A 6S-foot steel single span bridge has been built over the deep. Either one of these units is sufficient at presentto operate the road. The boilers are horizontal returnHue. i8 feet long, 72 inches in diameter and containing72 four-inch tubes. They are made of the best qualityof flange steel, triple riveted and designed to carry aworking pressure of 125 pounds per square inch. Thestack is of steel, 5 feet in diameter and 102 feet high. The motor cars are of modern design and similar inappearance to standard steam railroad cars. They are35 feet

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