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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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ly illuminate the car at night, while 14 in.Star I leadlights lighten up the gloom without. The seatsare prettih upholstered, floors are covered with wooden of the I)a\i-nport & Rotk Island Railwax Compain.The building is on Second avenue, and is 105x115 feet,divided into two sections which extend its entire length,by a tire-wall reaching to the roof. On oni- side is tinboiler room, 54 feet from floor to roof. ^riu steam )ilant consists of a batter\- of three Ila/.eltontripod boilers arranged in a row, and ecjuip)Hd with aRoney mechanical stoker. This boiler is manufactured by the Hazelton TripodIioiler Compain, ol Chicago, and has had an immensesale throughout the United States and Mexico within thelast few years. It consists of an upright center column fifsteel, resting on a solid base-plate of ca.st iron, and con-taining for almost its entire length parallel rows f>f lioksin which are expanded short lengths of wrought ironboiler tubes, the outer ends of which are closed. The
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VIEW FROM IlLACK IIAWKS TOWER.- mals, and the car makes a commodious and staunch con-\eyance. Adjustable wire gates enclose the platformsand wooden fenders guard the wheels. These wheelsare from the well known Griffin Car Wheel Company,and are .;6 in. diameter, with patent chilled rim. Thetrucks are of forged steel, unusally strong and were allbuilt for this order by the McGuire Manufacturing Com-pany, Chicago, whose trucks are now to be found inalmost every city. Of the motor cars, twenty-two carrj-one 20-horsc-power motor each, and eighteen are equippedwith 30-horse-power motors, the latter to be used in draw-ing trains. The heaviest grade on the entire .system is innavenjiort and is a 10 per cent. Having crossed the bridge we come to a pretty city,w ith broad, straight streets, and busy with manufactories.A short distance from the river, and facing it, is seen animposing structure of brick, which is tiie power plant -DAVENPORT A ROCK ISLAND RAILWAY. \\ ater is inside of the shell a

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