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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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ighting. The turbine unit will operate in parallel with the presentequipment of the plant, which consists of Westinghouse compoundengine generating outfits of the belted type. STREET RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIV JULY 20, 1904 No. 7 New Power Installation of the Twin City Rapid Transit Co. The extensive addition which the Twin City Rapid Transit Co.,of Minneapolis and St. Paul, has found it necessary to make to itspower equipment is an index of the success which has attended theoperation of tliis company. The management of an urban trans-portation company always has difficulty in deciding where to drawthe line between the conservatism that shall properly guard the City system for over 25 years, and Mr. Hield, the general manager,for 17 years. Prior to 1898 the power for the Twin City Rapid Transit systemwas supplied from three steam stations, aggregating 10,500 h. p.in capacity, two located in Minneapolis and one in St. Paul. Jan.I, 1898, the St. Anthony Falls Water Power Co. put in partial
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ENGINE A.Nn GENERATOR ROOM, NEW IUWKR STATION. TWIN CITY K.\PID TRANSIT CO. interests of stockholders, and the optimism sure to be engenderedby a study of street railways in America. Those to whom thesuccess of the Twin City company is due have always taken abroad view of conditions, and the courage with which they haveacted on their convictions has excited the admiration of all con-nected with the industry. The Twin City Rapid Transit Co. Is one of the few of the largersystems in this country in which there has not been a change inmanagement in recent years; Mr. Lowry, the president, and Mr.Goodrich, the vice-president, have been connected with the Twin operation the water power plant built to supply current to therailway, and a few weeks later seven 700-kw. generators were inservice. This water power plant, which was described in the Re-view for February, 1899, was designed for ten 700-kw. generators,and the intention was to abandon regular use of the two steamplants in Minneapolis.

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