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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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k of a Large Car Co., Recent 585 Works of a Large Wrought Iron Bridge Co «388 Works of the American Engine Co *654 Works of the Barney & Smith Car Co *125 Works of the C. & C. Electric Co 58 Works of the Card Electric Motor & Dynamo Co. *472Works of the Curtis Electric Manufacturing Co. *3S6Works or the Fulton Foundry & Machine Co., Brooklyn *521 Works of the J. W. Fowler Car Co *53 Works of tne Jenney Electric Co., Indianapolis, Ind 520 Works of the Lodge & Davis Machine Tool Co. *473Works of the Sterling Supply & Manufacturing Co *!97 Worlds Fair, Exhibit of the J. A. Fay & Egan Co., at the *12 Worlds Fair Exhibit of the Lodge & Davis Ma-chine Tool Co *50 Wright Device for Reducing Jolting *556 Wrought Iron Bridge Co., Flexible and Adjust- able Bracket for Poles *657 Wyoming Valley Interurban Railway *764 Yonkers, Consolidation at 601 Youngstown Street Railway Strike 618 Zurich. Switzerland, Dse ot Storage Batteries inthe Trolley Railway Plant at 546
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Vol. X. NEW YORK $ CHICAGO, JANUARY. a OA \ ELECTRIC RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN PHILADELPHIA* 6 1894£y The long fight between the advocates of rapid transitand the city authorities in Philadelphia, to secure theright, on the part of the street railway companies, to em-ploy electricity as a motive power for their cars, is of sorecent a date as to be still fresh in the minds of our read-ers. In Philadelphia, perhaps, more than in most cities,the needs of rapid transit were exceedingly pressing, andthe old horse car had outlived its usefulness. In thatcity, however, the advocates of improvement in street carmethods, as in other cities, found a considerable portionof the community ignorant of the features of the systemwhich it was proposed to install, and opposed to anychange. This class, by petitions and otherwise, brought systems controlled by the following companies:Philadelphia Traction Company, the Electric TractionCompany, the Peoples Traction Company and the Hes-tonville, Mantua &ampstreetrailwayjo101894newy

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