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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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PHOENIX IRON WORKS ENfilNE AT PAN-AMERICAN. has double the wearing surface usually provided with this typeof valve. Great care has been taken to reduce tlic clearances toa minimum. A cast iron sub-base of sufficient heighl lo bring the wheelsclear of the engine room floor is provided. * « • The Melropolitau West Side .IClevaled which has for severalmonths been operating during rush hours extra shuttle trainson its Garfield Park branch which do not run around the loop butslop at Canal St., west of llie river, is erecting additional tracksat the Canal St. station and will extend the shullle service to thesouthern branches of llu- road. 512 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XL, No. 8. PORTABLE SUB-STATION. The accompanying engraving shows an exterior view of theportable sub-station car recently completed for the Union TractionCo. of Indiana. This station is intended for use in case of anemergency arising from an accident to one of the sub-station rotaryconverters, or for temporarily increa

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