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Identifier: streetrailwayrev06amer (find matches)
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
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th green andenvious eyes you looked upon these cars, to cause you to make sucha false and foolish comparison. The friends of Mr. C. L. Pullman, who may be called legion, forthey are many, as well as every fair-minded man knowing anythingabout this car. who reads your little diatribe, cannot fail to be bothindignant and disgusted at such an attempt to mislead, and to mis-represent facts. Yours respectfully, C. L. Pullman, Center Vestibule Car Company, 1121 Monadnock block. TROLLEY ORE CARS. The enj^raviiig, from a photograph, illustrates two of theore cars in use on the Butte Consolidated Railway, at Butte,Montana. The freight line has been in successful operationsince November 10. The cars have a capacity of ten tons,anil are used for transporting the ore from the mine to thesmelter, a distance of three miles down a grade exceeding 10per cent. During the recent blizzard no serious trouble wasexperienced in running, although the temperature was 44below zero and the snow drifting badlv.
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TROLLEY ORE CARS—BUTTE CONSOLIDATED RAILWAY CO.MPANY, BUTTE, MONT. I (4. Your ferry-boat simile, if you understood it, is a compliment,rather than the reverse, which you intended, for the best points ofthis commodious water vehicle are embodied in the new car, viz.,smoothness of motion, good accommodation for passengers, absenceof those monstrosities at each end, called platforms, a clear andunobstructed view through the windows at both ends, protection fromdrafts blowing through, etc., etc. 5. You say, you fail to see wherein the steel construction isgoing to reduce the elevation, so the elephant can get into anordinary car house, etc. After reading your article, no one canwonder that you tail to see it, but car builders, or car experts, thosewho understand anything about street cars, can readily see how asteel framing can be made lower than a timber framing. Our firstcars with timber framing were, as stated in the Washington Post,fourteen feet in height, the cars of steel construc

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