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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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osucceed himself for a two-year term. October 20, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 737 PAPERS AND REPORTS PRESENTED AT THE COLUMBUS CON-VENTION OF THE AMERICAN STREET AND INTER-URBAN RAILWAY ASSOCIATION data, and show the results of standardization and thoroughlysystematized management. The interurban railways have made wonderful strides in thepast few years, but the number of car equipments employed andthe periods they have been in service have not given them thesevere trying-out process of continued heavy use such as hasbeen the case with the elevated railways. Commencing with the Intramural Railway at the ColumbianExposition at Chicago in 1893, the Metropolitan West Side Ele-vated in 1895, followed by the Lake Street, the South SideElevated, and the Northwestern elevated, all in Chicago, andthe Manhattan and Brooklyn Elevated in New York City, andthe Boston Elevated in Boston, we follow through a period ofthirteen years of successful practical daily performance of verysevere service.
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ELEVATED RAILWAYS AND THEIR BEARING ON HEAVYELECTRIC TRACTION BY H. M. BRINCKERHOFF.Electrical Associate of William Barclay Parsons, Consulting Engineer,New York City When entering upon a new field of activity, or upon a line ofwork exceeding in magnitude anything heretofore attempted,one naturally looks about in an effort to ascertain what has beendone in similar undertakings that may in one way or anothersupply some useful lesson or be a guide in shaping the new de-velopment. The demand for greater terminal facilities for the steam rail- FIG. 1.—DATA SHEET SHOWING PASSENGERS, CAR-MILES, SCHEDULE SPEED AND COSTS rosds in our great cities and the necessity for doing away withthe smoke incident to steam locomotive operation in the tunnelapproaches to such terminii has practically forced a peculiar lim-ited application of heavy electric traction in the steam railwayfield. The new and varied problems that have arisen have engagedthe attention and received the most careful study from th

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