Identifier: streetrailway03amer (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 estimated by the engineer that the expenseof keeping 10 miles of track open can be done at areasonable expense, dependent on the organization of thesnow cleaning force. The number of .sleighs will be reduced for this winter,and as these vehicles could not be heated, and the electriccars will be provided with hard coal stoves and Burtonelectric heaters, the public will be better pleased. On the line of the railway are found numerous resortswhich, with rapid transit facilities, will be liberally patron-ized. Historic Mount Royal and the beautiful Sohmerand Lacrosse parks have many attractions for both visitorand inhabitant of Montreal. The addition of 35 miles of new track and the finalchanging of the 50 miles now existant will also have itseffect on outlying property. The present management is a strong combination offorces, and the street railway world looks to it for a strongexample of enterprise. President Forget and SecretaryE. Lousher are first-class men, who, with Superintendent
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NEW TOWER WAGON—.MONTREAL. jFranklin, are well acquainted with locality and people,while the accomplished skill and the extensive experi-ence of Managing Director Everett does the rest. ONE HONEST EDITOR. THERE was much opposition in the good old cityof New London, Conn., to the introduction of thetrolley system. The daily Day, more honestthan most papers, says: The street railway has doneall for the town that was promised by its projectors, andmore. We make the acknowledgement now, not only forour own satisfaction, but for the benefit of course, of ourcontemporaries in other parts of the state, who are strug-gling with the same misgivings and influenced by thesame unfounded prejudice? which led us to question theexpediency of introducing the trolley system. 28 ELECTRICITY FOR THE FARM. A RATHER rose colored scheme for keeping theboys on the farm is proposed by Nelson Black,in a recent engineering magazine. Mr. Blackestimates that more than 90 per cent of the roads in theUnited Stat

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