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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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e and dispatch. The postal authorities haveexpressed the greatest pleasure at the change and sev-eral similar ser\ ices are now pending, namely, at Torontoand Montreal. At the latter places aso it is suggestedthat besides carrjing to and from railway stations that sorting is done en route the usual glass windows are dis-pensed with. The platforms are enclosed a la veslibuie. Our engraving represents Ro3al Mail i on its wayrejoicing, to catch the 10:30 train, as the clock in thebuilding opposite marked the hour of 10. The car ishandsomely decorated and the minature of the usualsteam mail cars makes it really a noticeably handsomestreet scene. To distinguish the approach of the mail car from thatof civilian coaches, a special gong has been attached, thesound of which is easily learned. llnder the old system the delivery of mail by horse andwagon cost $3,600 a year. The Ottawa Street RailwayCompany has contracted to perform the same servicefor $4,000 per annum. The Street Railway Company
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ROYAL MAIL CAR. OTTAWA. the service be extended to suburban towns, following thepractice now in vogue on the Twin Cities Rapid TransitCompany and the Cincinnati and St. Louis Electric Rail-way Companies. Hitherto the roval mail has been conveyed by wagonin Ottawa, until the present elegant mail cars were put incommission by the well known firm of electrical dealersand Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company,agents. Ahearn & Soper, under whose direction the carswere built. The cars which are three in number were made bythe Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company, and are equip-ped with 30-horse-power Westinghouse motors. Theyare 20 feet long, doors in the side for loading and unload-ing the mail. The interior has been arranged to affordevery convenience for handling the pouches, and as no furnished the motor-man. while the Dominion Postalauthorities furnish the messenger or guard who will havecharge of the mails, the electric street railway assumingno responsibility in that regard

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