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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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made famous by the writings ofWashington Irving will soon have its echoes awakened bythe swift running trolley car. The modern Ichabod Cranecan go a courting on electric cars with no fear of headlessgoblins. The Halifax Town Coimcil passed resolutions, whichwere ratified afterwards at a mass meeting of the citizens, topetition Parliament for a bill to empower the corporation tobuild tramways and operate the same. The mayor gave ashis opinion that electricity was the only motive power worthyof consideration. AN ENGLISH CONDUIT. The accompanying drawings show the conduit ducts andmethods of jointing used in some underground work atLeyton, England. It is known as the Doulton conduit andis made in two, four or six ducts 2J^ inches scjuare. It issupplied in lengths of two feet, and jointed on stonewarecradles with Portland cement, as shown in Figures i and 2.While making the joint, plugs of wood were inserted intothe ducts to insure their alignment, and to exclude cementfrom the interior.
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1M4 (^lacd/S^aUM^S^eylW* inter^stiij; 3it3 of Information from all Parts of the Country,Boiled Down foi* Busy Readers. A car barn, 76 by 1S5 feet, is being built for the Cincin-nati & Miami Valley Traction Company at Trenton, O. The Union Traction Company of Philadelphia is thelargest street railway company in the world, being capital-ized for $110,395,910. ^ Ovvensboro Electric Railway suffered the loss of car shedsand supply house, together with eight street cars and a num-ber of motors. Loss, $8,000. Icy rails caused a Buffalo & Niagara Falls car to jumpthe track near the Tonawanda Driving Park. It ran into aboard fence but suffered little damage. C. M. Burlingame, the defaulting bookkeeper of the Buf-falo & Niargara Falls Electric Railroad, was apprehendedand returned to Niagara Falls for trial. The annual report of the Beaver \alley (Pa.) TractionCompany shows a very gratifying condition of the roadsfinances and good prospects for the future. By throwing a piece of te

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