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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Walworth exhibit is in block 27, Machinery Hall, where thecompany has a full line of its gate valves and numerous otherspecialties. The attention of electric railway engineers is par-ticularly directed to this companys work for high pressure plants.Of prominent interest is the Walnianco pipe joint which is allanged-over joint made without threads or rivets and guaranteedto he .ibsolutely tight under 250 lb. working steam pressure. The Railway Appliances Co., of Chicago, successors to the Q. & C.Co., has space in aisle E, post 49, Transportation Building. Thecompany is showing Stanwood treads for locomotives in theexhibit of the American Locomotive Works on the Vandalia Lineengine No. 200. The companys vestibule diaphragms arc shown onthe cars of the Missouri Pacific R. R., in connection with the exhibitof the American Car & Foundry Co. The representative of the Railway Appliances Co., in St. Louis,is the Adreon Co., Security Building. THE WEBER RAILWAY JOINT MANUFACTURING CO.
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WAI.-WoH-ril .MA.\TK.\CTriil.\i; ID. The Walworth plant is especially fitted for doing heavy pipebending work in all sizes from 2^4 in. to 24 in., and the companyhas supplied many prominent steam plants with heavy pipe bends,the best steam engineering practice now calling for long bendsin place of elbows in piping design as the bends reduce friction.eliminate joints and better provide for expansion and contraction. The companys products include all designs of valves for steampower work, long sweep flanged and screwed fittings, engine andboiler trimmings and an unusually complete line of tools for steamengineering construction and repair work. The company is also showing a track drill for drilling holes inrails which has the commendable feature that it does not requireto be disconnected from the rail in order to permit a car to passover the point on which the men are working. •-.-» CHRISTENSEN AIR COMPRESSORS. One of the most attractive and interesting exhibits in the Trans-portatio

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