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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 amusement. The apparatus runs on asteel track, and is equipped with modern safety appli-ances. Street railways would, of course, use a motorwith power from the trolley current. A NEW FORM OF COMPOUND RAIL. The compound rail herewith illustrated is desi<jned toobviate the breaking down of joints and give a con-tinouslv smooth bearing surface for the wheel tread.The design is the invention of R. L. Caldwell, of 42Lindus street, Cleveland, O., and the construction isclearh shown in the illustration. The part carrving thehead of the rail rests upon and is partially supported by
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CALDWELL S RAIL. The popularity of the merry-go-round or carousel atsummer resorts has become so great as to lead to manvimprovements in designs and modes of operation.Messrs. Norman & Evans. Lockport, N. V., havedesigned what should prove a very satisfactory form forboth proprietors and patrons. It is propelled from anupright engine mounted upon trucks by a cable passingaround the outer edge of the machine. This is com-pletely under the control of the engineer and out of theway of the riders. The machine can be taken apart andtransported in any ordinary box car. It is forty feet indiameter, and has a seating capacity of tifty-six peoplevariously arranged upon galloping horses, carriages andchariots. The horses are finished in a life-like manner,with comfortable saddles, and the four-seated convey-ances have landscape-painted panels. Music is furnishedby an organ, which appears to be operated by a coloredyouth. The whole is covered with a fifty-foot tent. The firm indicates the pr

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