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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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• e s andthoughts from sudden andviolent death to the latest facility for handling the immense output of these abattoirs,for here comes the shadow of coming events, the firstelevated electric tram car for dispatching freight fromone to another of the departments. The motor cars carry no freight. They will be six innumber when the full equipment is ready and will handlefrom 150 to 200 cars daily. The present equipment usually runs in trains of six cars,a locomotive and five trailers. The locomoti\es are eightfeet long and are equipped with 15-horse-power Thomp-son-Houston motors. Current is taken from an overheadtrolley ware, held sufficiently high to avoid touching when
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iUtCTKK IRtKjlU LOCOMOTIVE. a tall man stands upright on the car, by a trolle)- stand ofthe Mening type. The locomotive weighs two tons. The wheels on the new cars will be ten mches indiameter and the new freight or trail cars will be sevento ten feet in length, according to the purposes of thetraffic and size of the elevators, and will weigh from 250to 300 pounds, They will be of the flat or rack typewith a capacity of eight or ten tons per train load. Thenew road handles 700,000 pounds per diem. As the tracks of the tramway proper are on the out-side of the building at the second story, in order to morereadily bring the cars to their ultimate destination, a seriesof tracks inside of the house will be slightly inclined sothat gravity will distribute the lands to their places, orland them upon the ele-vators for distribution onthe higher or lower floors.To facilitate this internaltraffic about five miles ofinside track will be laidflush with the floor so asnot to interrupt hand-trucki

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