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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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TRACK ON CAPITOL SQUARE. The return circuit through the rails is made complete at thejoints in the 72-lb. rails by cast-welding, and also through the 60-lb.rails for 1% miles by cast-welding, the remaining portion beingbonded at each jomt with two No. 0000 solid terminal bonds. Equipment. In regular operation 11 cars are used to furnish a schedule with10-minute headway. The rolling stock consists of 14 open, Airier- -165078 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW (Vol. XVI, No. i. ican Car Cos. o and (O-bench cars; two American Car Cos. 20-ft.body semi-convertible cars with Brill truck and two G. E. 52 or 54motors. These cars are full vestibule and double-ended. There arealso 14 double-vestibule closed cars, with iS-ft. bodies and G. E. partitions. This section is equipped for the offices of the operatingforce and the general repairing of the rolling stock. At the rear of the front offices is a conductors room, connectingwith the bookkeepers office by a window. Next in the rear is a MADISON TRACTION CO
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VIEW OF FRONT OF THE MADISON CAR HOUSE SHOWING STANDARD CLOSED CARS. 52 or 54 motors. The auxiliary equipment consists of a double-ended snow plow and scraper with closed body, manufactured in thecompanys shop, a combination sand car and snow plow, a sub-stantially built tower wagon, a light repair wagon and the neces-sary construction wagons. room set apart for stores for all departments. Adjacent to thestoreroom is the carpenter shop, equipped with a planer, woodlathe, saws and a boring machine. It is interesting to note thatthis boring machine was made from an old drill-press frame thathad been thrown aside. The frame was mounted on the carpenter ^ I 1, r~»n -1—M I 1 i r v ■ 1 r<—t !■:■.! r I I I I ■- I i I —r- I r ■ i i r—i 3_ ^H

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