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Title: Electric railway gazette
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: New York : (W.J. Johnston Co.)
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losed and twelve cars, for the St. Louis Cable & West-ern Railway Company; four cars for electric railway, Lima,Ohio; five cars for Milwaukee City Railway Co.; ten carsfor Rochester City & Brighton R. R. Co., Rochester; andten cars tor the Metropolitan Cable Railway Co , KansasCity. The foregoing being built at Pullman. Also, at De-troit shops, electric passenger and motor cars for the High-land Park Railway Co., Detroit. The Baltimore Car Wheel Co. are preparing gear forforty-five street cars built by the Brownell & Wight CarCo., St. Louis, twenty being for the Jefferson Avenue Rail-way and twenty-five for the Mound City line, St. Louis;also, for twenty-four cars built by the John StephensonCompany (Limited) New York, twelve of them being for theMetropolitan Railway, Washington, D. C, and twelve forthe Essex Passenger Railway, New Jersey. w® ^ar< Builders of Railway and Tramway Cars. r,ni n luirnoi Chicago Exhibition G0LD1MEDAL For Best Open Car New Orleans Exhibition
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Street Railway <) azette. Vol. II. Chicago APRIL, 1887. New York No. 4 Robert Hutchison, Esq. President of the Tramway Institute, London. America is indebted to England for many things. Ourtrans-Atlantic cousins, on the other hand, owe not a littleto the United States, and may take profitable lessons from Brother Jonathan. This is the case especially with re-gard to street railways, or tramways. It was shown forciblyby the late Charles Dickens that England should have fol-lowed the lead of America, when street railways were inTrain over there in 1861.But Mr. Trains omnibus-railways were refused; andnearly a decade passed beforethe street railway movementwas revived in Great Britain—then under the name oftramways. When the Ameri-can Street-Railway Associa-tion was organized, in 1882,they officially adopted thename street-railway forwhat they call tramway across the water. And in 1885the Tramways Institute ofGreatjBritain and Ireland wasorganized, the objects ofwhich are stated in

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