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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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mmodation for at least 100 inrush hours. One of the best recent examples of quick and thorough work inbuilding electric railways is that of the intcrurban between Hamil-ton, 0., and Cincinnati, connecting with the Cincinnati Street Rail-way lines. In March, 1898, F. J. J. Sloat, then superintendent ofthe Akron, Bedford & Cleveland Railroad Company, went to Ham-ilton to look over the proposed route of the Cincinnati & HamiltonElectric Street Railway Company. In November of the same yearthe cars were running on schedule time from Hamilton to CollegeHill. The entire construction and equipment of the road indicatethat it has been in the hands of experienced men. Only first-classmaterial and the best of equipment have been used. The line is 15 miles in length and extends from Hamilton throughSymmes and Mt. Healthy, making connection at College Hill withthe lines of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company. At the Ham-ilton terminus it joins with the Miami Valley Electric Railway, thus
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VIEWS IN XUli roWliK SiWTION OF THE CINCINNATI & H.\MlLTliN liLliCTKIC .STKEET RAILWAY. FIRE AT ST. LOUIS. A fire, the origin of which is doubtful, broke out in the Lamistreet power station of the St. Louis (Mo.) Railroad Company be-tween 3 and 4 a. m. on December 29. The building is of brick witha slate roof. The slate is laid on wood and underneath is a falseroof of wood. The fire broke out between the roof and false roofof the boiler room, and quickly burned out all the wood, the slatesfalling into the boiler room. The Broadway cable line was stopped when the fire was discov-ered, but cars were again running at 6:30 a. m. The coal handlingand stoking machinery was deranged and hand labor was neededin the boiler room until repairs could be made. The damage wasestimated at $10,000, covered by insurance. The building was erected in 1890, and is a two-story brick struc-ture, valued with the equipment at $200,000. General Manager Mc-Culloch considers it fortunate that the loss was s

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