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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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n. They are required to ex- amine the street railways once in each year or oftener when theydeem that public safety mi requires. The examination otroads during the past year showed them to be in good conditiongenerally and the commissioners had but a few suggestions to make in the tine of improvements. On roads the trolley poles The companies having lb the I in,. Railway flk Lighting Co., owning and operating 152.173 miles, theRailway Co., with 7.\>iX$ miles and the Fairhaven,\ Westville with 68.020 miles 1 be Winchester Kvtnw Kadi..adis owned and operated bj the latter company, which brinmileage up to 81 00 it mad. up from ib. arious compan an.1 indefinite in so far as it relat and equipment, on account of the fa. ome oi the com .1 not only in operati >u( also in operating capital bonds ami Boating indebb le upon the property and consequently the amounts shown under thicounts are not all applicable to the sireei railway business \-far as the gross receipts and operating expensi
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\HP ill- CuNNKeTKVT SHOWINC TKCI1.I.KV KOAI.S OI TUB STATE. have been placed nearer the tracks than was considered safe foithe operation of open cars with running boards. It has been recommended that poles be placed not less than 5 ft. from the nirail and changes in the 1. cation of poles were generally voluntarilymade at the time of the inspection, It was also recommended thatall the large double truck ears should be furnished with powerbrakes in order 1 .lied with safety. This i essential on roads with steep grades and it is a wise precaution inthickly settled cities where promp oi the ears may avert an accident. The total mileage of the street railways in operation in Corcut reporting for the year ending June 30, 1001, is 492.227 miles ex-clusive of sidings, and 515.835 miles including sidings, making thelength of the latter 23.608 miles. This shows an increase duringthe year of 21.257 miles in the length of main tracks and the de-crease of 5.153 miles in the length of sidings repo

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