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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e-one to look after the comfort of the passengers andtelephone in case of emergencies. A still greater im-provement that lay in the future was a wide-gage rail-road from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean for freightonly. He was willing to predict the possibility ofuniversal electrification, but the only thing he was notwilling to predict was what system would be used. On the conclusion of the speakers farewell remarksPresident Syze thanked Mr. McClellan in the name ofthe Railroad Club for the excellent work that he hadperformed as chairman of the committee on electricalsubjects. Storm Plays Havoc on Kansas Pole Lines The accompanying halftone shows how many of thefifty-three poles between Liberty and Excelsior Springson the Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railwaywere blown down by a storm on Feb. 22. In some in-stances the poles were on embankments higher than thetrack, while in others they were on a fill. Both the high-tension and low-tension lines were down at many places.
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HIGH-TENSION POLES BLOWN DOWN ON THE KANSAS CITY,CLAY COUNTY & ST. JOSEPH RAILWAY The section mentioned was out of service for four days.The only previous interruption on this railway was Feb.22, 1914, when a section of the St. Joseph division wasout two hours because of poles blown down in a similarstorm. The telephone and telegraph companies lostmany poles in eastern Kansas and western Missouri, butno serious damage was reported by interurban rail-roads other than that shown. Brooms and Street Cars A recent discussion of brooms appears in the currentissue of Trolley Topics, the official organ of the Louis-ville (Ky.) Railway. It is written by G. B. Powell, su-perintendent of employment of the Louisville Railway.Mr. Powell says: Our present type of broom was invented more thana century ago and is quite an improvement over theturkey wing which was in use at that time. Thereare many kinds of brooms and their uses are varied,and you will find them in all parts of the civilized world

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