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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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- fender, should not only keepthe individual from falling under the wheels, but shouldbe so constructed that in striking him no serious injuryshall result from the blow. GILL WATER TUBE STEAM BOILERS. THE Gill water tube steam boiler, built by the StearnsManufacturing Company at Erie, Pa., is after theusual type of water tubes set at an angle of 15degrees from the horizontal, connecting, front and back,with a steam drum. The principal difference in tubewater boilers is in the headers which receive the ends ofthe tubes. In the Gill boiler the headers are made to
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Tests made b)- the Newton Street Railway, at WestNewton, Mass., recently, were highly satisfactory andwitnessed by Chairman Crocker, of the State RailroadCommissioners, and other prominent men from variouparts of the country. A straw dummy was set up on thetrack and run down repeatedly by an electric motor underfull headway. The results were in every case successful.The man was then placed in a recumbent position acrossthe track, but the fender was lowered and scooped himup as readily as an engine takes water from the track.The fender can be let down so as to slide on the railsif desired, but when not in use may be lifted against thedash and carried in that position. The West End Roadof Boston, are to give it a trial soon. CONVENTION ECHOES. THE Pittsburgh Despatch characterized it as a con-vention of politicians. If that class of citizens towhom the term politician is generally appliedcould imitate some of the good sound sense, and straight-forward business qualities of the railway m

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