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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ulation is suchthat, with wide open throttle, the speed of the engines will notrise more than 2 percent above normal at no load, nor fall morethan 2 per cent below normal at the maximum load, so thatthe engines are absolutely free from the condition of racing. GROOVELESS-POST SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CARS FORMUSKEGON, MICH. Peculiar local conditions govern the operation of the linesof the Muskegon Traction & Light Company, of Muskegon,Mich. The city is contiguous to many attractive pleasureresorts bordering on Lake Michigan, most of which are ac-cessible by trolley, and has received its chief impetus fromthese resorts. A large portion of the transient traffic whichthe company handles is drawn from Grand Rapids. Theinterurban line recently constructed between Grand Rapidsand Muskegon brings large crowds to the latter city, espe-cially in the summer time. Many of the passengers cominginto the city over this line are bound for Lake MichiganPark, owned and operated by the Muskegon Company. In
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SINGLE-TRUCK, SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR FOR MUSKEGON order the better to handle this traffic the company has recentlyplaced in operation four grooveless-post semi-convertible carsbuilt by the American Car Company, of St. Louis, under Brillpatents, a type of which car is a new departure to the city.The new cars are similar to others of the type which havebeen illustrated and described in these columns. They are20 ft. 8 ins. in length and 29 ft. 8 ins. over the crown pieces;width over the sills, 7 ft. 9^ ins., and the interiors are finishedin cherry. All the cars are equipped with the Brill trackscraper. The truck employed is the familiar No. 21-E. December 29, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE Wall Street, Dec. 26, 1906. The Money Market There was some improvement in the monetary situation duringthe past week. The local demand for money was less urgent asa result of the continued liquidation in the stock market, andthere was also a falling off in the shipments of funds t

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