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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s issued a sup-plemental report which shows that there are 70 electric railwaylines in the state. Their gross receipts last year amounted lo$9,574,552; expenditures. $5,881,046; dividends paid. $6.?o.i50. Thesefigures compare with the previous year as follows: Gross receipts,increase. $f)8o,298; expenditures, increase. $789,755; dividends, in-crease. $.S).5io. The total mileage of the lines is 980.56 miles;capital stock. $85,061,880; bonded debt. $67,747,000; other debts,$7,362,968. The estimated cost of roads and equipment is $160,-344,176 ■ « » » The Camden (N. J.) & Suburban Railway Co. has been leasedto the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey for 999 yearsfrom May 1st, the annual rental being guaranteed. May jo, 1904) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 329 Ore Cars for Butte Electric Ry. Ill the Rcvii-w for Xovomber, igo3. page Sgj, Mr. J. R. Whar-ton, general manager of llic Butte Electric Railway Co., in his articleon some of the interesting features of that road mentioned the
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•ARS. RITTK Kl.lCCTKlC HY. The cars arc mounted ou Taylor double trucks and llic two motorcars are equipped with four G. E.-52 motors each, also with Chris-tcnsen air compressors. The type M multiple system of control isused, being operated by the motorman in the cab at the head of thetrain. The car bodies proper arc 20 ft. long and 8 ft. wide, witha gable bottom and doors for side dumping. Eachhas a capacity of 420 cu. ft. The entrance of the mine from which the ore isto be taken is at the top of a long grade whichreaches its maximum incline of ioJ4 per cent atthe mine mouth. It is quite apparent that to handlea loaded train on these grades requires extraordi-nary safety precautious. Besides being equippedwith wheel brakes operated by compressed air thesecars are also fitted with a track brake, designed byMr. J. S. Wathcy, the general snpcrinlendent of theBulte Electric Ry. The track brake, which is in-tended for emergency use, when it is operated byhand, is shown in the accompanyi

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