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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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according to the paving of the street throughwhich it runs. The 14-inch pulley wheels are placed atintervals of 31J^ feet. The slot rails are Johnsons pat-tern, size, 6 1-16 inches, and weight, 60 pounds. The machinery, so the last car leaves each end of the route atI oclock a. m., and the lirst starts at 5. The grip carsare on Stephenson trucks with Baltimore gear, and thetrailers on Baltimore trucks. Cars are switched at theends of the line, no turn tables being used. The power house was designed by W. C. Root, ofKansas City, and was placed in the hands of J. E. andA. L. Pennock, contractors, of Philadelphia. All of thearchitectural iron work was furnished by the ChampionIron Company, of Ohio. The work was greatly delayedby the insecure ground, which necessitated the sinking ofpiles for the masonry foundation, and by bad weatherduring the winter, which hindered the brick workers.Even now the house is by no means completed, butenough has been done to enable a roof to be put over the
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INIKKKIK ruWER STATION WASH INUTON i GEORGETOWN pulley wheel pits are on the level of the floor of the con-duit and are drained as is the rest of the conduit, by directconnection with the sewer main. The cars are operated with a grip and single trailer, orwith two trailers in the crowded hours of the day. The70 grip cars were manufactured by the John StephensonCompany. They are 14 feet long, and have a seatingcapacity of 20. The 180 passenger cars are from theAmerican Car Company, St. Louis. The closed carshave a seating capacity of 32, and the open cars willcarry 40. A strong effort was made by the public tohave an all-night schedule enforced on the line, but it wasclaimed that 3 hours was the least time that would sufficefor the nightly overhauling and repairs to cable and machiner), and the finishing touches will have to be givento the place while the plant is running at full capacity.The Washington & Georgetown Street RailwayCompany- was organized in May of 1862, using a veryp

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