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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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s delays to traffic. It is estimated that itcost the street railway companies of Chicago $75,000 tohandle the snow. Work was in progress night and day tokeep the tracks clear and haul the snow out of the streets.One company alone employed 1,000 men and kept from100 to 500 teams going constantly until the streets werecleared. The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company hadfour plows and seven sweepers and a large force of menworking and kept its tracks clean with great difficulty. Someof the railways in the smaller cities were not so successful.At Aurora, 111., the snow was wet and deep and was followedby a hard freeze, covering the rails and wires with ice, buta portion of the system was opened up in 12 hours, the firstserious delay since the road was built. In Racine, Wis., thestreets were blocked with snow drifts three to five feet deep,and effectually stopped the cars of the Belle City Street Rail-way Company and the Milwaukee, Racine & Kenosha Elec-tric Railway Company.
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PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR. The subjects of the papers have been announced for theAmerican Association, but the assignments have not allbeen made. The subjects are as follows: Maintenance and Equipment of Electric Cars. To What Extent Should Street Railway Companies En-gage in the Amusement Business. Underground Electric Roads—Their Construction andManagement. Carrying of United States Mail on Street Railways. Comparative Earnings and Economy of Operation Be-tween Single and Double Truck Cars for City Use. How to Care for the Return Current. Inspection and Testing of Motors and Car Equipmentby Railway Companies. The entertainment of the Association will be in charge ofthe Massachusetts Street Railway Association. The plansof the State Association have not been completed, the firstmeeting having been held the second week in February, butit is understood that a number of entertainments of a kindto be found only in New England will be provided. After drilling to the depth of 1,200 ft. the Om

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