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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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I. Standard Double Track Structure — 2. Structure over^Boulevards — 3. Double Track Station — 4. Rolling Lift Bridges and Towers. 2(iG <^f\jwdr^Jr(aAh\/^ THE ADOPTION OF ELECTItlCITV. In spite of its many features of interest, the road wouldprobably never have attracted the attention it has were itnot for the decision to adopt electricity as a motive power.The road was built for a steam road and all the planswere drawn for locomotive traction. The credit forinducini^ the owners of the road to adopt electricity isprobably due more to the present general superintendent,W. E. liaker, than to any other man. As general man-ager of the Intramural Railway at the Worlds Fair, hesecured possession of facts and figures which were con-vincing as to the economy of electricity as a motivepower. His consultations with the Metropolitan manage-ment resulted in the announcement, about a year ago, that The minimum height of the structure above the street is14 feet, the usual height being 15 fe

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