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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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hose which con-nects it with the reservoirs of the compressor system. Suspended from the roof are two emery grinders for use onthe rails, equipped with flexible shafts which are driven by anair motor on the car; cages of incandescent lamps in banks of 5, cross-cut saws and a bug or portable trolley pole for connectingwith the trolley underneath the elevated structure. On the flooris a large assortment of spike bars, hand jacks, wrenches, specialtrack bars, tie clamps, spades, brooms, rail drills, boards, etc.Extra fuses arc carried on a shelf, and there are boxes of bolts,nuts, washers and other odds and ends, likely to be of use in thework of repair. A sand pail, metal waste can and a Badgerchemical fire extinguisher arc also supplied to the construction car.Despite the great variety of equipment upon this car is appearsroomy and convenient. It was designed and equipped by the Ele-vated Division, the construction of the car body being efTected atthe Bartlett St. shops of the company.
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INTERIOR BOSTON CONSTRUCTION CAR. 12 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XV, No. i. Street Railway and Highway Conflicts. An interesting paper on street railway and highway conflictswas recently presented by Mr. Bentley W. Warren, of Boston, atthe meeting of the Good Roads Association in that city. Mr.Warrens prominent connection with the legal side of street rail-way work in New England enabled him to speak with authorityupon the broad relations existing between the street railways, townauthorities, and the commonwealth. He began by pointing out thattwo parties are always necessary to every quarrel, and that everydispute is due either to the ignorance of one or both parties to it,or else to a wish by one party to take an improper advantage of theother party. Conflicts between street railway companies and pub-lic ofiicials must be attributed either to the ignorance of the partiesconcerned or to the improper intention of the street railway com-pany. Mr. Warren stated that in his experience co

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