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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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Milwaukeecars. md Los Angeles are likely to get mail A IAVILION BV THE WAV-SIDE. A feature of especial interest in the line of safety isthe fact that the road does not cross any railroad atgrade. The means required in one instance is shownin our illustration of the viaduct over the Philadelphia.Wilmington t^ Baltimore Railroad. This is 712 feet inlength and indicates the expense to which the company (^M5ie€tJ\aiWa^j\ey^^ Sol has been to secure a line free from causes of delay, andespecially to insure the safety of its patrons. There are on the line a number of pleasant resortswhere boatinj^ and Hshinj, can be had. and where theinner man may be delighted with all manner of sea andfarm food fresh from the water and the ground. There
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RACE TRACK ON MARROW S IDINT ROAD. are also facilities for other forms of amusement. As awhole, the line is remarkably well adapted to the needsof those who wish to secure an outing at merely nominalexpense, and the road can hardly fail to prove a success.It is certain that no efforts will be spared by PresidentYoung and Secretary Duvall. if the enterprise shown inthe past is an indication. THE CRAZE FOR EXTRANEOUSKNOWLEDGE. and even loose brushes might be included in the categoryof remedial faults. But beyond these points it wouldask merely an honest attention to work and care of therolling stock. It is suggested that proper records shouldbe kept of the efficiency of motormen as done withlocomotive drivers on the steam roads. Doubtless themost useful man is not he who can turnhis hand to all kinds of little repairs onthe road, so much as the careful operatorwhose handling of the car renders suchlittle repairs unnecessary. We all knowthe man who is forever tinkering withmachinery and

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