Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (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 purpose. Motive powerwill be obtained from the South Brooklyn plant of theBrooklyn Heights road. The accompanying map from the Railroad Gazette showsthe several lines running to Coney Island; the three electriclines are those of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad, the Nas-sau Electric Railroad and the Coney Island & BrooklynRailroad. For through service from Fulton Ferry, Hamilton Ferry,South Ferry and the Bridge, connections have been madewith the Brooklyn Heights road at 65th street and 3rd ave-nue: from other lines transfers are made at this point. PROPOSED ELEVATED FOR CHICAGO. The Chicago City Railway Transit Company was incor-porated February 9, by parties connected with the ChicagoCity Railway. It is stated that the new company proposesto build an elevated road extending north from 39th street,in Dearborn street and Plymouth Place, with a down-townloop, for the better accommodation of the far snuthern andsouthwestern traffic of the Chicago City Railwa)-. (^tiM%iivviai\^ACW 129
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3S-KT. CAK —ATLA.nFA railway COMPANY. NOVEL TRUCKSIAT ATLANTA.; We illustrate herewith a car, and its truck and motorequipment, built at the shops of the Atlanta Railway Com-pany, Atlanta. Ga., after the designs of Frank M. Zimmer-man, superintendent of the company. Though these arethe first trucks that have been built the idea is not new withMr. Zimmerman, he having had it in mind for some y.arspast. The car is 38 ft. long. 11 ft. 6 in. high and 7 ft. wide, andhas a seating capacity for 60 people. The total weight isabout 9 tons. The floor is 33 in. above the rail. From cen-ter to center the two trucks are 22 ft. 6 in. apart. The construction of the truck is well shown in the illus-trations. The wheels are 30 in. in diameter and the wheelbase is only 32 in. The motor case which constitutes thetruck frame is of cast iron. The motors, one on each truck,have four poles and are rated at 35 h. p. each. The motoris geared to both axles, the gear ratio being 3^ to i. Theweight of each tru

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