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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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h of thesame year, and were immediately put in operation on the Metro-politan Elevated for the purpose of thoroughly testing them andremedying any defects that might develop. These cars ran on theMetropolitan until June 5. 1898. when they were transferred to theSouth Side Elevated. During 1897 the Electrical Installation Co.,was given the contract by the Sprague Co. to equip 1:4 additionalcars belonging to the South Side Elevated R. R. with the Spraguesystem and this work was carried out at the shops of the Wells &French Co. The last cars of this lot were delivered Mar. 19, 1898.and on May 15, 1898. the first regular passenger train was run withcurrent taken from the third rail. The elevated company during thelast three months of 1898 equipped in its own shops 30 more cars. Since January, 1897 the company has been paying 3 per cent onits stock and it is believed will soon be put on a 4 per cent basis.The Sprague system as installed on this road has been fully dc- LQirrt/tct Ave. I
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THE CHICAGO ELEVATED R.\ILROADS. scribed in the Review but the essential features may be brieflyrecapitulated. For the most part each car is independently lighted,heated, driven and braked: there are some trail cars. But all the 676 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. IX, No. lo. cars in a train are controlled by one motorman. The apparatuscomprises a master controller on each end of each unit; mastercontroller and train line cables; removable sections of the train line,called jumpers, which correspond to the air hose couplings usedwith air brakes; the main controller, which consists of relays and athrottle, pilot motors with automatic limits, a rheostat cylinder, anda reverser. The equipment of the road includes 150 motor cars and 30 trailers.The motor cars are the passenger cars of the original steam equip-ment; under one end of these cars the old truck was retained, butat the other end a motor truck was added. The McGuirc Manufac-turing Co. furnished the first 120 motor trucks which are f

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