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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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il on an equality with the higher girder rails asfar as convenience in paving is concerned. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Mrs. Annie Hurley has sued the Brooklyn HeightsRailroad Company for $5,000 for killing a dog. Our bright English contemporary, Lightning, com-ments on the September Review as follows:— The Street Railway Review for September devotes sometwenlv-seven pages to an account of the city where the convention is tomeet, its history, its buildings, and. above all, its street railways, powerstations, etc. To those wlio can read the American tongue with facility,and who have time for technical literature on this scale, these pages willbe inviting Everything has been done that could be done in the wayof print and illustration to make them attractive. In accordance with a custom almost universal in American journal,ism, this serious article is interspersed with short stories and rhymes,some humorous, some supposed to be so, and others mere news para-graphs. (plwei j\ailw^ii^eyic\/ 759
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riaKKAM TRUCK KinHIKl) WITH WESTINGHOUSE MUTORS. SPRING SUSPENSION OF WESTINGHOUSEMOTORS. T RAILS PREVENT ACCIDENTS. The new No. 12 Westinghouse motors are so designedthat nothing but spring suspension can be used. By thisarrangement the motors are literally hungup frombars attached to the top of the motor case, and the greaterpart of the dead weight is taken off the car axle. FigureI shows the suspension on a Peckham truck as itoriginally appeared to the street railway public. Apeculiar modification of this is used by the Terre HauteElectric Railway. Figure 2 is a rough outline giving ageneral idea of the Terre Haute method. Instead ofhaving four bars (two to each motor) and suspendingthe motors from the middle of each pair of bars, there

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