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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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d Mr. Pear-son will take charge of the road. .A. similar ofttrhas been extended to all the other railway com-panies operating in the city, and Mr. Pearson be-lieves there will be no trouble in inducing theother companies to accept the offers, now that thecompany -with much the largest mileage has doneso. If this is accomplished, the new company willcontrol 186 miles of road. The interests represented by Mr. Pearson havealready taken all the bonds of the .MchafalayaLevee district. $5,000,000 of the new drainage andsewerage bonds of the city of New Orleans, andhas purchased control of the New Orleans Gas Co.at a cost of $3,500,000. thus securing a monopolyof supplying New Orleans with gas. They havealso made an offer for the purchase of the Ntw OrlWorks. Orleans, actiii,y couplers on both the New York and Boston elevated systems isa guarantee of their merits. The order for the Manhattan Ry. inchules draft rigging for 100new cars being l)r.ilt and coupler equipments for i.ooo cars now in
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NO. U, VAN DORN COUPLER. service. The automatic heads tor this order arc of an entirely newdesign with extra heavy links to meet the severe service on theelevated lims. NEW VAN DORN COUPLERS. The W. T. \an Dorn Co.. of Chicago, has designed two newtypes of couplers for the elevated railroads of New York, whichare shown in the accompanying illustration. One of these couplershas a long fiat arm with helical springs placed near the couplerhead. This is for use on the motor end of a car, and is arrangedso as to allow the drawbar to clear the motor and at the same timeto give a direct pull. This is known as the Van Dorn No. 16, andthe other, which is known as the No. 15, is for trail cars and theends of motor cars not equipped with motors. The two motorcejuipments of the Manhattan will carry both motors on one truckto get the greatest tractive effect. These are used in connectionwith the Barnes patent swivel on the body bolster, which securesvery smooth running of trains with the least pos

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