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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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other com-pany in the two cities. The aggregate length of theirlines is 25 miles—12 miles operated by cable, 7 bj elec-tricity and 6 by horse-power. As represented on themap the road forms a letter Y, one branch extending outto East Liberty, the most populous and popular residencesuburb, the other branch continuing along the river andcrossing it near the terminus to Sharpsburg, while thestem comes down to the business center. The rolling stock consists of 66 8-wheel Pullman cablecars, 28 feet in length and vestibuled in front, 10 Gilbertvestibule electric cars, and 15 horse cars. The cable carsha\e 22-inch wheels; the grip is hung to the body of thecar, over the front truck, and each gripman carries in hiscab a full set of tools as a precaution against accidentsen route. Lever brakes are used, and two alarm-bellsclamped to the front axle of each car keep up a constantwarning jingle when the car is in motion.
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BRIDGE OF SIGHS. The down-town end of the main line terminates in aloop, and all the cars run through a building in which,under the track, is an open pit, over which each car isstopped long enough to permit the examiners to lift thecable from the jaws of the grip and oil the working parts. The cable power-house is located on the main line justbelow the junction of the two forks of the road. Thedown-town cable is 25,800 feet in length, and is run at 386 9)^ miles per hour. The East Libert)^ cable is 28,400feet in length, and the one which operates the other forkis 12,000 feet long—the remainder of the distance beingcovered by the electric cars. The power-plant consistsof 3 Wetherill Corliss engines of 50C)horse-power each,3 sets of driving-drums, and the usual accessories. Thetwo batteries of boilers are of Wetherill make, and thefuel used is natural gas—about 400,000 feet per day.

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