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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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alarge number of cities in all parts of the country. The entire plant covers five acres including a large lumberyard situated across Second street opposite the shops.Both the yards and the shops, even during the present rushof business, display evidences of care in the way of neatnessand order, that are well worthy of imitation. Cambria Iron Company. The Cambria Iron Company, of Johnstown, Pa , is wellrepresented at St. Louis and in the southwestern territoryby E. H. Linley, whose office is located at 714 North Secondstreet. The product of the company is found among thestreet railways, especially on the lines of the Lindell, forwhich company a special pattern is furnished, and on theSt. Louis & Suburban. Though the principal business withstreet railway companies is in the line of girder and T-rails,a considerable business is done in rail joints, track bolts, toolsand waste. Feeder and armature wire is supplied in largequantities, the St. Louis & Suburban being supplied almost
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A GLIMPSE OF THE LACLEDE CAR COMPANY S ERECTING SHOP. on the second floor at the front corner of the plant, conven-ient to all parts of the establishment. Close by is also alarge and well lighted drafting room. The erecting shops are at the present time well filled,and considerable activity is noticeable in all departments.The principal orders on hand and in process of fulfillmentare for 205 cars for the Second Avenue Traction Company,of Pittsburg, including both closed and open, and 115 closedcars for the Cincinnati Street Railway, and three private orobservation cars for the latter company. The latter are tobe masterpieces of the car builders art. Some of the noticeable features of the work of this com-pany are the excellent quality of material used in body-framing, the substantial character of the vestibules uponsuch cars as have this adjunct, and the strengthening of theroof by steel carlines which extend from side to side fol-lowing the lines of the deck or clear story. There is

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