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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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Bay City, superin-tendent. ;\l the lime of fonsolidalion each of the pmiierties was operated trol a large portion of the lines in both cities have been rebuilt.Sixty-pound T-rails of the A. S. C. E. section are laid on oak ticsbedded in concrete. The joints arc bonded with No. oo AmericanSteel & Wire Co.s concealed, expanded terminal bonils. This con-struction is the standard for unpavcd streets in both Saginaw andBay City. In paved street a Shanghai rail 6 in. high, having aT section and weighing Oo lb. to the yard, is used. This rail is spikedto oak ties laid in a concrete bed. Specially notched gage brick arcused. Throughout the cities new special work with hard steel cen-ters has been laid. The overhead work is of the latest type, usingwooden and steel poles for span wire construction. The operating schedules on the different lines in the two citiesfurnish 5, 10 and 15-minute headway. For this service there arere(;iiired for winter operation in Saginaw 23 cars and in Bay City
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INTERIOR VIEW B.\Y CITY TOWER HOVSE iiidepeiuloiilly, having its cnvn tiKiiiagenieiU and generating station,i hese electric lines comprise the city systems in Saginaw and BayCity and an interurban line, 13.54 miles long, connecting these cities.These properties have been united and their four power stationssuperseded by two new ones, which now supply current for operatingall the cars and for lighting the city of Saginaw and a portion ofBay City and its suburbs. City Systems.1 he city system of Saginaw comprises 22.7 miles of single anddouble track lines, including a suburban branch to the companysRiverside Park. The lines in Bay City comprise 17.5 miles of singleand double track, which include a 5-mile suburban branch to theconi;)anys Wenona Reach Park. Since the syndicate obtained con- 18 cars. The summer schedules have an increased number of carsto suit the patronage. The Saginaw equipment includes 36 con-vertible cars of 8. 10. 13 and 15 bench types, also 32 closed carshaving varie

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