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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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Buildings: Repairs on track $ 108.25 Repairs on poles and overhead line 49-50 Repairs on buildings 1405 Repairs and renewals of paving 3969 Total $ 211.49 Maintenance of Equipment: Repairs on car bodies and trucks $ I7I-75 Repairs on electrical equipment of cars 150.02 Repairs on power house c(;uipment 83.07 Total $ 404.84 Total operating expenses $3.71503 SUMMARY. Passengers carried 163,222 Average earnings per day $238.75 Average cars operated per day iij^ Earnings per car per day $20.32 Operating expenses per day $119.84 Operating expenses per car per day $10.20 Total motor car-mileage 54.457-5 Mileage per day i.7S6-7 Mileage per car per day I49-S Earnings per car-mile 13-59 cents Operating expense per car-mile 6.82 cents Net earnings per car-mile 6.77 cents It should be noted that the various items repairs include thelabor necessary to do this work. The item for fuel is large be-cause nothing but high-priced lump coal could be obtained. Oct. 15, i8yfj-) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 715
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CHICAC;0 RESIDENCES. THE LORAIN STEEL CO. PIERCE & RICHARDSON, CHICAGO. The Lorain Steel Co., .successor to the Johnson Co., which wasthe first manufacturer of rails to make a specialty of 60-ft. girdersfor street railways, has an immense business and the Johnsonrails are known everywhere that street railways are operated. Allof the Chicago surface railway companies have Johnson rails intheir tracks and the standard roadbed specifications used for newwork call for 60-ft. girders. The Du Pont trucks made by thiscompany are used on the cars of the Chicago Electric Traction Co. A LIQUID PRIMER AND SURFACER. It is an a.xiom with the up-to-date general manager that his carsmust be kept clean and attractive in appearance, no matter whatthe conditions. .\n unkept, unpainted street car not only does notencourage tratTic, but it goes further and often keeps passengersfrom riding. Therefore a good paint that will hold its color andsurface is an absolute necessity. But to secure such a paint

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