The street railway review (1891) (14737703816)

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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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3stem by Christmas. A.N. Connett,the chief engineer of the Metropolitan Rail-road designed, and E. Saxton, the well-known cable con-tractor, laid the track and conduit. The full complement of trains will be 22, consisting ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRAMWAYSINSTITUTE. The Tramways Institute of Great Britain and Ireland,which corresponds to our American Street Railway Asso-ciation, held ils annual meeting in London last month.President W.J. Carruthers-Wain, who will be so pleas-antly remembered by delegates to the Buffalo conventionwas re-elected president for the fourth time. The attend-ance was as large as usual, but nothing of special import-ance marked the session In his opening addre.^s the president called attention tothe rapidly decreasing objection to the trolley system,growing out of a better understanding, and that in placeswhere one year ago opposition was strong, the publicwere clamoring for the change. His reference to corpo-ration worked tramways revealed the fact that at Glas-

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SECTION THROIIGH SWITCH AT CONTACT RAIL SWITCH. each of a motor and one trailer. The motor car willhave a glass front in severe weather. The couplingsbetween the cars are as rigid as it has been possible tomake them. The bull noses are faced off square witheach other leaving no play when the coupling pins are inplace. This does away with the surging incidental tospring couplings of all sorts. To prevent oscillation inthe contact shoe, this device is swung from the truckinstead of from the car. A FINE RECORD. The best Fourth of July record which has reached usis that of the St. Joe-Benton Harbor road, of which W.Worth Bean is president and manager. With five mot-ors drawing each one trailer,—and the trailers were carsformerly drawn by horses, the road collected 12,309fares. An extra motor and trailer met with an accidentearly in the day, bringing the average haul per car forthe day to nearly 1,200 passengers; or $60 per car.We agree with those who bemoan the scarcity of holi-days in

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1891

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