Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (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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tory lying in the extremesoutheastern portion of Massachusetts. These three roads areowned by independent companies but the stock of each is held byallied interests and the three properties are operated in harmonyas to track rights, distribution of power, repairs and maintenanceof cars, and other affairs of management. The city company is known as the Union Street Railway Co. ft. of special rails; 56,665 chestnut ties, 6^x63/2 in. by 8 ft., spaced20 in. center to center; 227,538 spikes; 8,346 Crown rail bonds;4.173 Weber rail joints. In addition to the two Crown bonds ateach joint the rails are cross bonded with No. o wire every 700to 800 ft. There are 18 curves, crossings, cross-overs, etc., and 20switches. All the special work was furnished by the Barbour-Stockwell Co., of Cambridgeport, Mass. The overhead material used is as follows: 113,510 ft. of No. 00trolley wire; 99,924 ft. of feeder wire; 77,137 ft. of stary wire;13,154 ft- of span wire; 1,140 wooden poles; 165 iron poles; 44
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MAP OF NEW BEDFORD & ON.SET SYSTEM. Dartmouth & Westport Street Ry.—Union Street Ry.—New Bedford & Onset Street Ry It owns 31 miles of track in New Bedford and suburbs, and op-crates 39 cars in winter and 70 in summer. One of the interurban companies, known as the Dartmouth &Westport Street Railway Co., operates a ig-mile single track roadfrom New Bedford to Fall River. This is locally called the GeeWhiz Line and enjoys a very profitable through business formerlycarried by a parallel steam road. The New Bedford & Onset Street Ry. was opened to Warehamon Sept. 6, 1901, and the day after cars were run through to Onset. brackets for iron poles; 471 brackets for wooden poles; 97 cross-arras for iron poles; 875 cross-arms for wooden poles. The over-head material was supplied by the General Electric Co. In the country 3S-ft. chestnut poles are used and in the townsiron poles. The wooden poles are set in broken stone, in somecases from i>2 to 3 cu. yd. of stone bei

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