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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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¢.:.â¢.â >H:^^^=â¢lâ >lw^.â ^â¢:â >K St. Louis is not only the largest street car hiukling city inthe world, but is the home as well of a large number ofother appliances and supplies. The following sketch, thoughnecessarily brief, gives an excellent idea of these interestingindustries, a visit to which will repay every delegate. Brownell Car Company. The works of this company are situated at or aboutNo. 2,300 North Broadway. The indelinite expression is The raw material is delivered at such a point that it can gothrough the various machine processes necessary in a con-tinuous course to the erecting shop, whence the cars arereturned to the finishing and paint shops and ilclivered ujionthe cars of the railroad liy which the) are shipped away. The lumber yards are at this time well tilled. An inter-esting feature in the handling of raw material for sills is thesystem of marking. Each piece is marked and the specialmark recorded with the date, each invoice of material hav-
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SCENES AT THE BROWNELL LAK COMPANY S WORKS. used with reason since the gradual growth of the plant sinceits establishment in 1S5S has necessitated the adilition of newbuildings, or the acquisition of neighboring structures alreadyin existence, to such an extent that the site proposed, evenat a time far subsequent to the original establishment to beeventually covered, has been so greatly overrun that thebuildings and yards now occupy opposite sides of at leastthree distinct streets. The office and the shops where mostof the wood working is done occupy the north side ofTwenty-Third street, the paint shops and lumber yards are onthe South side, while there are buildings used for variouspurposes and other yards on the opposite sides of tlie inter-secting streets. The arrangement, however, is convenient. ing a separate date, the record thus showing exactly howlong each piece has been in process of seasoning. The plant is now engaged upon an order of 30 cars forthe Metropolitan Railway, of

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