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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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he greatest brake pressure. Thethrowing of mud and water upon the motor is also con-siderably lessened by this arrangement. The wheel base CHICAGO NOTES. AN attempt is being made to resurrect the LakeStreet Elevated Road, a mile of which has stood asa tombstone to its own memory for the last twoyears. It was built to sell to one of the surface lines, butthey failed to bite. The rumor that President Yerkes of the West andNorth Side systems was to retire is absolutely false. An organization has been completed including the con-ductors, drivers and gripmen of all the lines in the city. The Chicago City Railway will increase its capitalstock on October ist in the sum of $1,000,000, whichwill make their stock $7,000,000. A large delegation of the city council has gone east toinspect elevated roads. The cable difficulties are setded and the West Side loopis to be extended to State street; The South Side Cablewill build a new down-town loop for Cottage Grove carsto extend to Michigan avenue.
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THE BICKFORD is short and adapted to sharp curves. The body of thecar is supported on the axle by a link method, whichallows a free lateral motion of the whole truck on thewheels, and the frame is light, j^et strong. STORAGE BATTERY VOLTS. THE recent decision in the storage batterj caseseems to have given a tremendous impetus tostorage battery experiment. At Freeport, Illinois, a syndicate is negotiating for aset of batteries to operate a road. The storage-battery line at Dubuque has extended itsline 800 feet to the fair grounds. At Sioux Falls, Dakota, experiments are being madewith alleged, a new battery, which is said to hail fromMinneapolis. J. R. Bradbury is endeavoring to demonstrate thestorage battery system for street cars with the companiesof Sioux City. The Woodland Avenue & West Side Railway ofCleveland, has had a car .shipped from Philadelphia, andwill give it a trial, although the company do not expressa great deal of confidence in the practicability of the same. RADI

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