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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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as mostly of 6s-lb. and 72-lb. rails, andwas all to meet the companys own needs. Fig. 4 is a doubleelectric and single three-rail sleam railroad crossing, made fromloo-lb. A. S. C. E. standard steel rails. This crossing is showntaken down and plied up ready for loading.In Fig. 2 is shown a home-made power rail curver, which is 434 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. ■(Vol. XI, No. ?. driven by an electric motor. By throwing the lever (overhead inthe center of the picture) the motion of the gearing is reversed.The rails are run forwards and backwards until uniformly curved.The rolls are changeable, so that any weight of rail may becurved, from 30-lb. to lOO-lb. by changing the rolls. It requires cold weather, and in the summer, with the blinds up, the glaringColorado sun is excluded, and those not bent on sight seeing findit a most comfortable place to enjoy the cool breeze that almostinvariably is wafted through the car, from the near-by range ofsnowy peaks. Fig. 11 is interior view of this car.
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Fig. DENVER CITV CARS. two men about five minutes to curve a 72-lb. rail, where formerlyit required six men nearly thirty minutes, by hand power. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of the interior of the special work shopshowing planer, rail saws, etc. Figs. 7 and 8 are exterior views of a 39-ft. double truck com-bination car, some 80 of which type have been recently constructedby joining an open trailer to a closed motor, or cable car. Thisstyle of car has proved very popular with the public. Denver is Fip. 10. In Figs. 9 and 10 is shown a 40-ft. car, designed especially forthe company. This car is said to be one of the most elegantand complete cars ever turned out in the West, and will, it is be-lieved, prove a particularly popular type. Interior views areshown in Figs. 12 and 13. This car seats 48 persons. A bill has been introduced in the St. Louis city council provid-ig that all street cars operatirg within the city shall be equipped

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