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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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many inquiries which will undoubtedly result in orderslater in the season, wh^n construction work begins. It has alsohad a number of applications for agencies, but up to date has givenbut two. Porter & Berg. Chicago, northwestern agents and theWestern Electrical Supply Co., St. Louis, southwestern agent. ST. LOUIS CARS FOR CINCINNATI. The accompanying illustration shows a type of car recently builtby the St. Louis Car Co. on the order of the Tennis Railway Equip-ment Co., of Cincinnati, for the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Ports-mouth Railway Co. The length of the car body over vestibules is50 ft., width over all 8 ft. to in. and height from sill to roof 9 ft.4 in. These cars are intended for high-speed service and the bottomframing is reinforced with steel channels in side sills and steel I-beams in the center or intermediate sills. The sides arc doublesheathed with windows arranged in pairs, similar to the Pullmanconstruction, the lower sash being arranged to raise. The interior
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ST. LOUIS INTERURBAN LAH. tions which arc already in operation, and by the orders which arebeing received for additional railway power plants. During thepast few months the following railway generators have been ordered:Washington & Cannonsburg R. R. Co., Washington Co., Pa., two400-kw.; Lake Construction Co., Thornton, Pa., two 400-kw.;Steubcnville Traction & Light Co., Steubenvillc, O., one 2S0-kw. andone 400-kw.; Tennis Construction Co., Kenneth Sq., Pa., two400-kw.; Vandergrift Construction Co., Philadelphia, Pa., three 300-kw. and one 200-kw.; Eric Rapid Transit R. R., Harbor Creek, Pa.,one 200-kw.; Philadelphia & Lehigh Valley Traction Co., Quaker-town, Pa., one 200-kw. EUREKA FLEXIBLE CONDUIT. In placing the Eureka flexible conduit upon the market, the man-ufacturer, the Rittcnhousc-Miller Co., of Philadelphia, points outthat its three salient points of merit are economy, range of applica-tion and durability. Among the claims made for the Eureka arethat it is an unu

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