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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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effort made to make the roads not only self-sup-porting but to pay some return. Under the consolida-tion an effort will be made to secure the passage of a A BIG LOAD. The amount of overload that a common double motorequipment will take care of is remarkable. Our engrav-ing shows the performance of a couple of G. E. 800motors at Madison, Wis., where one motor car is haul-ing four lO-bench open trailers. In all there were notless than 500 passengers, according to F. W. Oakley,receiver, and a speed of seven miles an hour attained.The heaviest grades were mounted without ditliculty. TELEPHONES ON THE MAHONING VALLEYELECTRIC RAILWAY. The Mahoning Valley Electric Railway, of which A.A. Anderson is manager, will run a telephone line alongits route, connecting the power house in Youngstownwith the power house in Niles. A complete metallic
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A HEAVY TRAIN AT .MADISON, WIS. new thirty-year ordinance for a universal six-for-a-quar-ter fare rate, thus abandoning the Pingree system whichhas been tried, and, of course, found wanting. The carservice on the 3-cent lines will be so reduced as to forcepassengers, who do not want to lodge on the street, totake the lines where the higher rate is permitted. It isalso said that Tom Johnson and Henry Everett will nowretire from Detroit and leave it to Albert Pack, whoexpects to soon gather into his fold the Fort Wayne &Belle Isle. A controversy some years ago between the Oneida,N. Y., Street Railway Company and the West ShoreRailroad was settled under an agreement by which thestreet railway was allowed to be extended over theWest Shore land in consideration of carrying employesof that company free of charge. It is said that of latesuch employes have had to paj fare, and in retaliationthe street car companys tracks were on July 24 torn upand thrown into the street. circuit of No. 12

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