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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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LINDELL RAILWAY PAVILION, FORKST PARK, Works are belted direct to 120 horse-power multipolargenerators. The cars are supplied with two fifteen horse-power motors. Thirteen cars are closed the remainingseven are open. The motorman is protected by a vesti-bule. Headlights are on top of cars. Light will beplenty inside the cars and at the station. Each car hasseven 32 candle-power incandescents and the power-house 120 sixteens. Cars are fitted with ratchet lever old, and up to last year no street car lines entered thepark, and no shelter was provided for the public. Presi-dent Geo. Capen, of the Lindell Railway, initiated theidea of running into the park, and a franchise was grantedon condition that the company erect within ten years a$25,000 pavilion. The building erected last year isshown in the engraving, and is 200 feet long by 60 wide,having a floor space of 15,000 square feet. The clock
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LINDELL PASSENGER DEPOT AT MISSOURI PACIFIC R. R. brakes. Eight miles an hour is to be the speed in thecity and twelve miles an hour outside. The power houseis built with a view to enlargement when the Twelfthstreet extension is built. At present it is counted thattwo of the three power units at the station will be enoughto operate sixteen cars. Engineer A. Goodrich hascharge of the station. tower furnishes an observatory affording a good view ofthe park. The building is of white cut stone and yellowbrick, being finished with yellow pine, Hghted with elec-tricit) and furnished with janitor service. Another undertaking was the erection of the MissouriPacific Passenger Depot at the end of its VandeventerAvenue line. This handsome building was built entirely 47 at the expense of the Lindell Railway Company, andturned over to the use of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.This road has the great bulk of the St. Louis-KansasCity travel, and heretofore the Lindell people have hadto go two miles d

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