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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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ice, instead of forming on the side from which the storm came,as is usual, formed all round the wire, and pendant from thebottom at intervals of % in. were icicles, some 3 in. long. Thecombined weight of these loaded wires was too much for thepoles when a strong wind came from the north. The breakingpoles, the wires snapping, the crash of the falling mass, togetherwith noise of falling trees, crushed by their load of ice, madea fearful din. So dangerous was the mass of broken and tangled wires thatthe chief of police ordered all power stations shut down. Theelectric cars were dead just where they happened to be at thetime and remained in the streets for 24 hours. The crews spentthe day and night on the cars and the citizens attended to theirwants by bringing warm food, cigars, etc., to keep them com-fortable. , When the current was turned on next day there were manymishaps, but none serious. There were delays until broken tele-phone poles could be taken from the track, many fuses were
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lililLL CAU FOB SCHUYLKILL ELECTRIC EAILWAI. doors in the partition between the passenger and baggage com-partments were fitted with a steam car stop. There are the usualspring roller curtains at the windows and also an outside cuitainfor storm use. The bulkliead between the compartments hasglass doors swinging into the passenger end; the sliding doors onthe sides of the baggage compartment are 3 ft. 6 in. wide, withsafety chains for use when the doors are open. There are doubletrolley boards with the trolley pole located over the centre ofeach truck. Hooks are proiided to hold down the pole when theother one is in use. The side sills are sheathed with steel. Theseats and backs were covered with woven rattan. A DESTRUCTIVE SLEET STORM INKANSAS. A sleet storm beginning at 4 a. m. on November 21, proved tobe one of the most destructive that ever visited Leavenworth,Kan., effectually preventing the operation of the cars of theLeavenworth Electric Railroad Company, leaving the businesspor

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