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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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verybody in; hadshowed it to had laughed at him and the idia that u lilllc piece ofpol melal, as they expressed it, would liidd two rails together.He was from Milwaukee, and before he left It was agreed that hewould construit a cupola, that could be used on the street and gelIt lo St. Louis as soon as possible, and that he would weld theJoints for two miles of traik that we were building on (MiippewaSt. Ho went back lo build the cupola aaid came down In tile latter 692 DAILY STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Sebial No—Vol. XIV., No. 9b. part of Orlober, 18»4, and the l8t of November we welded this twomiles of track. The track Is still In use, and so far as I know ofthe 744 Joints put In this track only three have broken; thesebroke the first winter. The convention In 1896 met in a building that had been put upfor the convention that nominated Mr. McKlnley for president;It was on a lot opposite the city hall. The exhibits were In thisbuilding and were both good In quality and great In number.
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CAR IN ISE IN 1S9C ON THE C.\SS AVE & FAIR GROUNDS RY. This year the air brake was discussed but there were so manydefects in the air brake in 1896 that it was not safe. The Sub-urban road in St. Louis had made a great many experiments withthe air brake and would get an outfit of air brakes on a car andtry them, and when the management would begin to think thebrakes were about right, J;hey would fail and some right uglyaccidents resulted by reason of brakes failing to operate at theproper time. The air brake is all right now and we have themon all our cars. In 1904 our power houses are not what might be termed mod-ern, the car has grown larger, the track is necessarily heavier,the cable has disappeared and the volume of business has madethe requirements of street railways greater than ever before. It is a source of pride to us all that St. Louis is the only cityto be honored by three meetings of the American Street RailwayAssociation, and a most hearty welcome Is extended to both

Image Caption: Car in use in 1896 on Citizen’s Railway
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