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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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sident in Cairo, Egypt, is published by•• Lightning, London, as descriptive of the new electricroad under construction. The letter states: A Belgian firm has secured a concession for estab-lishing the tramways, and is now hard at work spoilingall the roads, though they never were very good. Inever saw rails put down without some kind of founda-tion before, but these in Cairo are rolled with bottomflanges about six inches wide, and are simply laid in A ROAD FOR HINGHAM, MASS. The Hingham. Mass., Street Railway was formallyopened June 22, with appropriate ceremonies. Thetotal length of line when completed will be about 16miles, being composed of a main line, and four branchesreaching to connect with lines already in operation. Thepresent equipment consists of 20 cars mostly open. Thepower plant consists of a power house 30 by 72 feetequipped with two compound engines of 250-horse-power each and two Thompson-Paine d\namos of 300amperes and 500 volts capacity each. The car house is J-
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POWER HOUSE OF DAYTON TRACTION COMPANY. holes cut in the roadway. Distance pieces are fixedbetween the webs of the rails, with nuts on each side ofthe web. When the rails are in place they are coveredwith road-making material and the whole is rolled down.Can you imagine what the roads are like. The trams are to be driven by electric motors, and thesupply is by overhead wires. The generating works arebuilt on the Nile, and the chimney shaft is looked uponat present only as an eye sore. 150 by 60 feet with a capacity of 50 cars. The officersof the company are S. Reed Anthony, president; W. A.Tucker, treasurer; Walter Foster, secretar); H. W.Brooks, superintendent. PROGRESS AT ST. JOSEPH, MICH. Women in bloomers chaperoned the cars of the Indi-ana Electric Railway, Elkhart, Ind., June 20, and collectedfares for the benefit of the building fund of St JohnsEpiscopal church. W. Worth Bean, president and general manager ofthe St. Joseph & Benton Harbor Electric Railway &Light Company

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