The street railway review (1891) (14780905383)
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Identifier: streetrailwayrev04amer (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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FIG. 3.—OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION ON VIADUCT SPAN. the method of hanging trolley wire from a 2x8 hard pinestringer. On the through spans of the viaduct a span
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FIG. 4.—GAS PIPE ARCH ON VIADUCT. wire construction as in Figure 3 is to be used. Figure 4is the style to be used on a portion of the viaduct, thewires being suspended from ornamental gas pipe arches. The ambitious schemers for an underground railwayin Chicago, are proposing a subterranean, four-tracked,electrically operated belt line to unite the elevated roads.The capital stock is placed at $15,000,000, and the meninterested as incorporators and directors are: MarcusPolasky, Morris Messinger and William M. Northrop, ofChicago, William Llewellyn, of Seattle, Wash., and A.M. Low, of Detroit, Mich., and the company is calledthe Chicago Central Sub-Railroad Company. <^S\jwd^j(aJS^^ 239 MUNICIPAL PURCHASE OF ENGLISHTRAMWAYS. By R. S. Tresilian, Assistant Secretary Dublin United Tramways. The question of the purchase of the various tramwaylines has again come prominently forward on the Englishside of the water, owing to a decision of the High Courtof Justice which has just been prono