Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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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ng, 15 feet wide and 10 feethigh, and fitted up to accommodate120 passengers, besides buffet andsmoking apartments The plan isfor three sittings on each side of acenter aisle. The entire car is toride on the four driving wheels, two in each prowsection, which it is expected will permit of mountingquite severe grades, as every pound of weight iscarried directly on the drivers. Entire weight of carand load is estimated at 40 tons. Drivers to be spokewheels, 15 feet in diameter and covered on both sideswith steel plates joined to the wheel at the rim, quitelike two saucers set face to face and placed on edge.Axles to be of faggotted steel, 12 inches in diameterand 13 feet long, with bearings on both sides of each templated power, current being taken through a six footdiameter horizontal trolley wheel placed beneath the car.In addition to a band brake working on a large drummounted on the driver axles, additional braking force ispro\ided from a series of air resistance plates on the prow.
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SIDE ELEVATION AND CROSS SECTION OF STRUCTURE. which open with one movement of a lever, ver)- much asseats on a blind are operated. Mr. Burton believes thistype of road can be constructed at a cost which will notprove prohibitory. The employes of the Utica, N. Y., lines held theirfirst annual field day and picnic a few dajs ago. A largeattendance, and competition for prizes offered by thecompany and local business houses made the races andgames highly exciting. CLEVELAND, THE CONVENTION CITY 481 History of its Growth and Manufacturing Interests—Points of Interest—Its Men and its Money-Its Progress and People. IF Moses Cleveland sliould awake some rine day amistroll a\va\- from his present rather cramped coiuli-tioii in that Connecticut cemetery, down to thecorner of Superior and Water street, which he onceknew in their primatise loneliness, and should there seenot only small houses pulled by horses, but houses ridingevidently by broom-stick power and others without anyvisible mean

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