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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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. E. i6o-h. p. motors, and 400 coal cars of 80,000 lb.capacity each, and 600 more similar cars will be added. The company is now operating two coal mines, using electric used in the construction of the body and the sills will be sheathedwith fi in. steel plate. The floor of the car will be double, the upperone being of parquetry flooring of handsome design arranged forrugs. At one end of the car is the parlor, which on one side con-tains a hand carved mahogany bed lounge and on the other sidea row of mahogany easy chairs. Beyond these there are two doubleopen berths, ne.xt to which is the buffet and kitchen. Further along comes the state room out of which opens a privatebath room, and at the other end of the car is located the smokingroom, which is furnished in the same manner as the parlor. Theentrance to the smoking room is by means of swinging doors lead-ing both into the hallway and the bath room. The furniture through-out will be of heavy carved mahogany, and all the compartments
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LOAL train on the ST. LOUIiS & ILLINOIS^SUBURBAN RY- current from the trolley wire for the mine machinery, and will soonopen several new mines. The officers of the company are: G. J. Kobusch, president; C.M. Clark, of Pliiladelphia, vice-president; J. M. Bramlette, gen-eral manager. ■ ♦ »♦ PRIVATE CAR FOR EVERETT-MOORESYNDICATE. The accompanying illustration shows the plan of a magnificentprivate car which is being built by the J. G. Brill Co. for the useof members of the Everett-Moore syndicate in traveling over theirlong railway system. The contract for this car calls for its comple- will be hung with heavy draperies to match the decorations of thecar. Among the other appointments of this car may be mentionedpneumatic gongs, whistles, sand boxes, electric heaters for both heat-ing and cooking, tea and coffee urns, folding wash stands, disap-pearing ice boxes and tool boxes, and a constant supply of elec-tricity, gas and hot and cold water. NEW YORK SUBWAY ACCIDENT. A sect

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