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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Handling Grain on the Inland Empire System. many instances the farmers are so anxious to deliver grainfor shipment that the builders have been unable to finishthe warehouses before delivery began. Careful estimates of the grain crop this season in theterritory lying tributary to the Spokane & Inland divisionshow that fully 10,000,000 bushels of wheat will be produced.The Inland Empire System has entered into a traffic agree- the annual report of the operations of the Liverpool Tram-ways for the year 1906. The description is as follows: The chief features of the apparatus consist in the useof an auxiliary hopper to contain sand, and of a system oflevers and rods, by means of which a driver may, at will,cause a more copious supply of sand to tall on the rails thanan ordinary sand box yields. The auxiliary hopper is fixedso that its delivery tube shall be within a few inches of
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New Sanding Apparatus In Liverpool. ment with the Great Northern Railway, and with the Spokane& International Railway, which has direct connections withthe Soo Line and the Canadian Pacific, and, with the excellentelectric service at its command, will undoubtedly handle agoodly portion of this grain. Both of these traffic agreements provide for publication ofthrough rates, which are divided on a basis regarded as mu-tually satisfactory to all companies. The Sijokane & Inlandis conducted on standard steam railroad principles, and does the rim of the wheel, the tube of the ordinary sanding supplybeing fixed a little farther from the wheel. The two suppliesof sand are controlled by one small toot lever. The auxiliarysand supply of the rear wheels of the car can also be broughtinto play without the driver having to leave his platform, inthe event of a car from any cause beginning to move back-wards when ascending a hill. Under ordinary conditions the driver, on depressing thesand

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