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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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RY. Messrs. James F. Shaw & Co. have sent us the following in-formation concerning the Providence & Fall River Street Ry.,which has just been built by Hiis firm. The road has~i2.57 nTiles oftrack, including sidings. Cars leave Market Sq., Providence, andrun to the Massa(!husetts state line over the tracks of the UnionRailroad Co., under a traffic agreement with that company. Fromthe state line to Somerset town line, io;4 mile.s, the company hasits own line running via Seekonk, Rehoboth and Swansea. Thencethrough Somerset, via Slades Ferry Bridge to the city hall. FallRiver, the route is over the tracks of the Old Colony Street Rail-way Co. The running time between the centers of the two cities!<: iJ4 hours and the fare 25 cents. About one-third of the mainline is over a private right of way. Thereis a branch from Swansea Center to Warren, R. I., whereconnections are made with the Providence & Suburban lines forCrescent Park, Riverside and other Providence River resorts.
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A BIRMINGHAM (ALA.) SUBURBAN TRAIN. thoroughly reliable and with the time saved in making quick stopsa much faster schedule can be maintained. The coal stoves formerly used in the cars have been supplantedby electric heaters made by the Consolidated Car Heating Co.,which arc found to be much cleaner and less expensive in thelong run than the stoves; all the cars on the system have beenprovided with this type of heater. An attractive little pamphlet is published each week under thename of the Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. Weekly inwhich items of interest in all three departments are briefly dis-cussed, the different places of amusements and the attractionsoffered, some witty little sayings, and reasons why people shouldprovide themselves with gas stoves, are embodied in the littleweekly and it is placed in small brackets in the cars for the orlification of the passengers. A locomotive is being built in the companys shops for use inswitching cars and making short freight run

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