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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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ears. The lines between Highland Parkand Waukegan and between Kenosha and Milwaukee and fromMilwaukee to Waukesha are now all old stories. Men are at workconstructing the road from Evanston to Highland Park, and theright of way for a road between Waukegan and Kenosha has allbeen secured and the present summer will see these two gaps closedand a practically continuous line of about two hundred miles willb^ open. Besides this there is some strong talk of connecting Mil-waukee and Green Bay. In regard to time required, a passenger can start from Chicagonow at 6 a. m. and reach Milwaukee at 12:30 and Waukesha at 2:30p. m., the cost of the trip, including the two jumps on the steamcars, being only $2.45. This trip was taken recently by the repre-sentative of a Milwaukee newspaper. A car on the line of the Suburban Traction Co., Pittsburg, Pa.,jumped the track on the morning of May .Wh and came near pre-cipitating .-(2 people down a 60-ft. embankment. Everybody butthe motorman left the car.
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D. G. HAMILTON. Junk 15, 1890.1 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 393 POWER STATION OP THE ST. CHARLESSTREET R. R., NEW ORLEANS. Ilic priwcT \A:tu\ ii( ilic St. Charles Slicii R.iilro.ul Co., of NewCirleans, has been in operation for several years, and has proved toLf economical and durable. When built the general opinion wasthat the foundations for heavy engines must, in New Orleans, bebuilt upon piling, but this plant has demonstrated that such is notthe case. The power planl occupies a portion of .-i building at Marigny andPeters Sis., within 100 ft. of the Mississippi River. The whole build-ing is 190 X 127 ft. and includes the shops of the company. Theportion containing the power plant is 88 x 109 ft.; llie walls arc ofbrick supported on piling. The roof is a steel frame with fire-tilefilling and covered with galvanized iron. The engine room floor is8 ft. above that of the boiler room and is made of brick arches, andcovered with pine flooring. The boiler room is 69 x 88 ft. and 28 ft. high

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