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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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CAR FOR INTERURBANSERVICE. INTERURBAN electric lines are in their infancy,nothwistanding the large number already in success-ful operation. As the Review has maintained fromthe first, the development and possibilities in this depart-ment of street railway work will rapidly grow into pro-portions little dreamed of even by those who believethemselves fully in touch with the times. The rollingstock for these hnes will necessarily require some radicalchanges from the ordinary day car on city lines. We con-sider the cars now being delivered the Cayadutta ElectricRailroad, Gloversville, N. Y., the best arranged for thisinterurban service of any we have yet seen. They arefour in number and built by the Gilbert Car Manufactur-ing Compan)-, Troy, N. Y. The Hne on which they are to run, and which will openin a few days, is lO^/i miles long, connecting Glovers-ville and Johnstown, and passes through Fonda and Ful-tonville. Branch lines in the first two mentioned cities Po r JohnstMMpBfilWflpBilU
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COMBINED BAGGAGE, SMOKING AND PASSENGER CAR. SORROW TURNED TO JOY. THE trolley line on Bainbridge and Catherine streetshas defied the snow storms without interruption.The continued snow storms and severe coldweather have been very hard on the horse car lines andthe scenes of struggling beasts trying to haul overcrowdedcars has been truly touching and the opponents of thetrolley are now as scarce as flies.—Philadelphia TaggertsTimes. A CITIZEN of Atlanta, Ga., sues the electric line forhaving run over his pig, causing spinal troubles, whichresulted in the untimely demise of the porker. This,however, is by no means the first time railways havebeen called on to contribute lucre to a hog. Alfred Dickinson, the inventor of the Staffordshire,England, trolley system, has just been granted a patenton the same in the United States. bring the total mileage of the interurban system up toeighteen miles. General Manager T. C. Frenyear is a most progres-sive man, and is determined to leave no sto

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