The street railway review (1891) (14573891400)

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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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, Light & Power Company,Anaconda, Mont.; West End Street Railway Company,San Antonio, Tex.; and Hammond, Whiting & EastChicago Street Railway Company, Hammond, Ind. The McGuire Manufacturing Company, Chicago, are PICTORIAL EVENTS OF A MONTH. Horses might run away with a car without creatingmuch comment, but it does seem odd for an electric carto run away with itself, yet it happened near Boston.On one of the suburban lines the motorman slowed downhis car without entirely shutting off the current, and gotoff to turn a switch. As soon as the front wheels hadpassed the switch, the car started to spurt. Dr. Wellington Adams, who made himself famous byprojecting an elevated electric air line from St. Louis toChicago, to run at great speed, has been obscured by the
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justly elated over their success in capturing the Mil-waukee order, which will be filled with the McGuire Aisuspension type. The competition was strong, therebeing no less than thirteen bidders, and the award wasmade the McGuire Company on its claims for operationwith minimum amount of current and cost of mainten-ance. The shops of the McGuire Company are workingon trucks for the Kansas City & Indiana Railway Com-pany, Kansas City, Mo.; Versailles Traction Company,McKeesport, Pa.; Danbury & Bethel Horse RailroadCompany, Danbury, Conn.; Mt. Adams & InclinedPlane Railway Company, Cincinnati, O.; Electric Trac-tion Company, Philadelphia, Pa.; Chicago City RailwayCompany; Tonawanda Street Railway Company, Tona-wanda, N. Y.; Union Street Railway Company, NewBedford, Mass.; Los Angeles Consolidated Street Rail-way Company, Los Angeles, Cal; Norwalk StreetRailway Company, Norwalk, Conn.; Delaware County& Philadelphia Electric Railway Company, Philadelphia, Interoceanic Electr