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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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rail,and the two outside wires. Rolling Stock. The company has 32 closed cars and 25 open cars, some of thelatter being used only as trailers. These cars are of three differentsizes, being 38. 48 and 52 ft. long and.all motor cars are equippedwith four motors each. The smaller cars are equipped with G. E. 57motors and the larger cars with G. E. 74 motors. The cars are ofvarious makes, including Stephenson, Brill, St. Louis, Pullman and all made by the Wcslcni Wheeled Scraper Co. The grader hasa capacity of about 600 cu. yd. of earth per day, varying some-what with the character of the soil. The company owns a hy-draulic press for punching out the ends of the rails for the Thomasbonds. In addition to the cquipniont just mentioned, the con-struction department is provided witli teiils, boarding cars, etc..sufficient to accommodate 500 men. Repair Department. .■\s will be seen on tlie plan of the companys property at Highwood, giving the location of all of the buildings and track con-
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INriilUnK UK WIKKKTK.\ Srll-MAlluN. Jewett cars, all of which are mounted on double trucks. The trucksarc of the Brill and Curtis types. .Xbout half of the cars areequipped with type M control and the other half use General Elec-tric K 14 controllers. Part of the cars are heated with electricheaters, although the majority use hot water heaters, part of whichare the Western car heaters and the remainder Peter Smith heaters.A number of new cars have just been received from the Jewettcompany which are very handsomely finished. These have a pas-senger and a smoking compartment and arc furnished in inlaid mahogany and have half empire ceilings. The motormens cabs coverabout one-third of the platform and are enclosed by double leafdoors which, when folded up alongside of the controller, leave prac-tically the whole of the platform available for the use of passenger;;.The lighting is provided by 25 frosted incandescent lamps and thereare continuous parcel racks of generous proportions. There

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