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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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carrying first-class passengers it will be noticedthat there are compartments for second and third class pas-sengers as well. The Oberschlesische is a narrow gage road, 30 in., and as WATER POWER AND HIGH VOLTAGE INSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. A new enterprise has been started which promises muchfor the street railways in Los Angeles and cities in that vic-inity. The Southern California Power Company has beenincorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000 to developthe water power of the Santa Ana river. The water is tobe taken from the junction of Bear creek with the river andcarried in a stone ditch and pipe line along the hills to the headof the Bear valley canal where it will be deli\ered to the tur-bines at a head of 1,100 ft. It is estimated that io,oooh. p. willbe developed and this is to be transmitted 75 miles to LosAngeles at a voltage of 30,000. San Bernardino, Pomona,Ontario and Pasadena will also be supplied. Henry Fisherof Pittsburg and H. H. Sinclair, president of the Redlands
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MOTOR CAR—OBEltSCHLESlSCHE STEAM STREET RAILWAY. there is no room on the axles for the axle-driven compress-ors, gearless motor-driven compressors are used. The motorcompressor furnished is i6x 24X 18 in.; its location is shownin the cut. The hand brake staff is retained. Each car isequipped with four motors, one to each axle, of a specially-narrow design. The weight of a train loaded is about 50tons. The steepest grade is about 5 per cent, and the aver-age speed contemplated about 16 miles per hour. General Manager Wessels, of the Standard Air-BrakeCompany, is pushing a vigorous campaign, not only at homebut abroad, and doing a vast amount of good work in makingthe value of air brakes understood and appreciated. W. T. Van Brunt, general manager of the St. Joseph(Mo.) Railway, Light, Heat & Power Company, states thatthe cars on his lines make a daily average of 126 miles. The Columbia & Western Railway Company is consider-ing the feasibility of using electricity on the lines

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