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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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r the country and getting themto exchange ideas about their work, a thing that had neverbeen done before: in fact, it had been avoided previously. While there were no exhibits in 1885 they appeared the nextyear when the association met in Cincinnati. Placed on awriting table, as I remember them, they consisted of a shortpiece of Johnson girder rail and a miniature railroad track,which was. perhaps. 6 ft. long and 6 in. gage, with a car on it.By some method there was an electric current produced. I donot remember how. and one end of this track was elevated, andit was undertaken to demonstrate that there was a greater ad-hesion between the wheels and the rail when there was currentin them than when there was no current. This to show that itmight be possible to get a car to propel itself on a track that wasnot absolutely level, it was thought at that time that a streetcar that was self propelled could not run on a grade. Sxn Yeak. No. 2—Oct. 12. Ifln4.1 DAILY STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 691
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\VHEiK OF VNIO.N DEPOT IHWEl: At the time -of the 1896 convention in St. Louis John Scullinwas at the head of the Union Depot road; Mr. Maffitt at thehead of the Missouri R. R.; Mr. Whitaker at the head of whatwas known as the I.indell road. Then there was a new roadabout to enter the field, the Suburban road, which is still inexistence: that road was built after the convention of 1S85, andCharles H. Turner was at its head in 189«. By 1896 the horse had disappeared. The flat tram rail hadgiven way to the girder. In many instances the flat rail was aslight as 28 lb. to the yard: it gave place to a jiirder rail of about85 lb. The 10 ft. car had been gradually enlarged until it be-came 20 to 25 ft. long. The horse car with a maximum speed of per-haps something less than 6 miles per hour, had been replaced bythe cable and electric cars with a maximum speed of 10 to 12 miles.

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