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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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eld, and protecting thepublic against the extortion of other methods of transit. The battle for the electric franchise was longer, if notso bloody, as the original conflict, and the Hoffers deservethe greatest credit for their zeal and patience in the faceof difficulties. The track is standard gauge of 58 poimd tee. The 636 (^;yied^j\ailM^U^Vl£\V maximum grade is 7 per cent. There are six cars inoperation, three motor and three trailers, each 34 feetlong. Two 30-horse-povver Westinghouse motors areunder each car and Lobdell Car Company wheels are inuse. The Westinghouse generators of 150-horse-powerare two in number and the line is fed in two sections. ennially patriotic pilgrims, extends three miles east andwest and two and-a-half miles north and south. The elec-tric road, as may be seen from our map, traverses the mostinteresting part of the field, redolent with the memoriesof the three awful days of July i, 2 and 3, 1863. Adescription of the battle would be necessarily incomplete,
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VIKW F);i>M Till: LIM: .^UiWlNO BCENE of the slaughter OF THE THIRD CORPS, THROUGH SICKLELS BLUNDER, JLLY 2, 1863. The power house is 80 by 180 in dimensions andcovers two 150-horse-power engines and the same boilerpower, all made by the Frick Company, of Waynesboro,Pa. The company runs an electric light plant, of the but every American citizen knows that here the confederate General Robert E. Lee met his defeat in trying tolead his desperate army into the north to capture Wash-ington and to bring to the confederacy munitions of war. \t

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