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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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of the Holly system of heating by exhauststeam from street railway and other power plants. Oneof the principal installations of the system is that of theSpringfield, 111., Electric Light and Power Company,and the experience of this company furnishes such anamount of valuable information generally upon thisimportant source of economy and profit that no apologyis necessary for presenting substantially in full the replyto our letter of inquiry upon the subject. A. L. Ide.president, writes the Review as follows: In reply to your letter, will state that the Holly sjs-tem, which was installed for our company by the Amer-ican District Steam Company, of Lockport, N. Y., sixyears ago, has proven successful and satisfactory inevery respect, both to ourselves and to our customers.We are at present heating between four and five mil-lion cubic feet of space. Our station is centrally located,and the greatest distance steam is carried is one-halfmile from the station. We have seven Ideal engines of
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HOME-MADE EXCURSION CARS—WINNIPEG. and four trailers. The special novelty of the outfit is foundin the trailers. These are made out of old horse carswith the same axle and end gear, but having new plat-form and sills and a railing about two feet high all around.Seats are arranged on both sides and across the endswith room for a passageway from the steps at each end,Poles are erected at each end and wires carrjing a stringof lamps supported bj- the poles light the car. G. H. Campbell, manager, writes us that the opentrailers are highly appreciated for picnic parties andmoonlight excursions, and with a large train load suchas that shown the trains present a very attractive appear-ance. The plan is one that can be put in service bvalmost any road and a small investment should yieldgood returns. 150-horse-power each, connected with the main servicepipe, and in addition to this we have a lo-inch main con-nected with the street railway power house, where theyhave one engine of 150-horse-p

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