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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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as five minntes. While nuich detail of the picture has necessarily been lost in re-production in engraving, the photograph from which the cut ismade is sulliciently clear to enable the reading of signs pasted uponthe lirsl pole- and lo cciuiU llir poles for a distance of fully l.5(X) ft. livily in cast welding. A contract has just been closed with theChicago Union Traction Co., for ihret conii)le(v cash weldinge(;uipinents and for a license lo weld joints under the Falk patents.The same e;uipnients have lately been furnished the Bosttjn ICIe-vated Railway Co., and a full e<;uipment of welding machinery, de-•scribed in onr last issue, has been shipped lo liuenos Ayres for theaccount of Kim-.iid Waller & Manville, the I.ontlon tramway en-gineers. STREET CAR BUILDERSFAILS. COMBINATION The plan to consolidate the lea<ling street car building interests ofthe country which at one time had every indication of goingthrough ha-- f.illen down. Whether another attempt will be made is
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M(.1IT IHOTOGRAPH BY LIGHT OF WELLMAN ARC IIICABLKIHT NEW PLANT OF FALK CO. The Fallv Co., of Milwaukee, is at present a very busy concern.The contracts for work have come in so rapidly of late that the in-crease in the size of the plant has become an absolute necessity.The company has purchased eight acres of ground close to the pres-ent shops and will there erect new buildings. A machine shop. 100X 200 ft. in size will be built, and a foundry, equipped for castingsteel, occupying the same amount of space, will be put up. Therewill be a power house 60 x 140 ft. and an oflice building 40 x 60 ft.The entire plant will have electric motors for driving the luachincry.It is expected that even this large increase in space may, before long,prove insufhcicnt and all the buildings are to be erected with a viewto possible longitudinal expansion. The shipping facilities will alsobe made as perfect as possible. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paulwill run a spur directly lo the plant and immens

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