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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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e Consolidated Car Heating Company and the fareregisters by the New Haven Car Register Company. Kach car hasa smoking compartment and at the end of each seat provision ismade for a card table such as arc used in steam passenger coaches. The system by which the car schedule is regulated is worthy ofmention. At each switch is a telephone booth and at intervals of son Company. There are some 3S-ft. curves in Hamilton but veryfew on the main line. The maximum grade is 8 per cent. The car barns are located five miles from Hamilton and occupya site 55 by 153 ft. The structure is of brick with a patent paperroof. The shops arc 41 ft. by 69 ft. The ofViccrs of the company are as follows: President, Will Chris-ty, Akron, O.; vice-president, U. Kimbcrly, Cleveland; treasurer, F.T. Pomeroy, Cleveland; secretary, C. E. Hoover, Hamilton, andgeneral manager, F. J. J. Sloat, Hamilton. General Manager Stoat,who is a large stockholder also, has long been prominent in intcr-urban work in northern Ohio.
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TK.RMINAlv STATlllN AT COLLEGE HILL. POWER HOUSE AND CAR BAk.N. 1,000 ft. along the entire line are plug-in boxes to which a portabletelephone box may be attached. Each car carries a portable tele-phone so that if any accident should happen between switches theconductor has only to go with his instrument to the nearest plug-inbox to be in communication with the oftice and shop. In thismanner all the cars are directed from the office. A speed of from40 to 45 miles an hour is attained along the greater part of theroute. The trolley wire consists of two No. 0000 copper wires and inthis way all overhead frogs and switches arc avoided. There arethree No. 000000 feeders 22 miles in length south of the power sta-tion and two of the same size four miles in length north of the sta-tion. Cedar poles 35 ft. long with is-in. butts and 6-in. tops arespaced at intervals of 90 ft. and the trolley wire is suspended fromChristy brackets. Nil i f ii i -^^f ^ SI w %i ^ M t ? . fife., ^ , ; â¢1 W7 \ P-Â

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