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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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ention to the car,the time of the daily trips, the starting points, cost of the trip and thefact that it is the best way of seeing Cleveland, all points of interestbeing callen en route. An Improved Hot Water (^ar Heater. The past year has shown a marked increase m ihc use of hotwater heaters for city and interurban cars, and we take pleasure inshowing herewith the improved Western car healer and fittingsmanufactured by the Franklin Railway Supply Co., Franklin, Pa. The Western car heater has been on the market during the pastyear and has met with an unusually favorable reception. Last win-ter it was placed upon a car of the Chicago & Milwaukee ElectricRailroad Co., Ilighwood, HI., in competition with other makes. Theresult of the test made by this company at that time resulted in thisheater being made standard and adopted on the new cars recentlybuilt by the Jewetl Car Co. Since then it has been placed u;>on yinew cars of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co., j.i new
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OPEN. CLOSED. THE WKSTKkX HOT U .\TF.R I .\R HE.MKR. cars of the Metropolitan West .Side Elevated Ry., Chicago, 10 new-cars of the South Chicago City Ry.. S cars of the Central IllinoisConstruction Co., 4 cars of the Green Bay Traction Co., and acontract closed as we go to press results in the heating systems ofthis company being placed upon all the closed cars of the SyracuseRapid Iransit Co., and on 60 large cars for the Rochester Ry. The Western car heater has a water jacket surrounding theentire fire space. Its outer shell is composed of A-m. Hanged steel,which extends from the cast iron base plate to the ornamental hood.Within this shell, extending from the grate to the top ring, isanother flanged steel shell, which is flanged and riveted to the outershell. The two nickeled rings hide the rivets from view. Betweenthese two shells is the Il4-- water jacket, the outer shell beingtapped at the top and bottom of the water jacket and connected withthe radiating pipes. Water circulates

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