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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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oining the repair sh(jp has ijecnadded to from time Iri lime, in sections, and now is 6fX) ft.in length, with brick walls and steel structural roof. Inef)nstructing a new power lunise at JcfTerson and Eagle Sts.,during the present season, Ijecause of a difficulty in gettingsteel structm-al work from the mills, the company lias eni-))loyed old track rails. an<l finished up a 600-ft. slructuiewhich is 200 ft. in width, and has a capacity for 100 carsanil housitig for one of the emergency wagons and thehorses to operate it. The International Traction Co. is already making prepa-rations to meet the anticipated increase rif traffic incident tothe o;)ening of the Ian-American Exposition, which is tobe held from May i to Nov. I, 1901. Uoth North andSouth America will take part, and it is claimed that this willbe the first great fair—exclusively .\merican—that embracesa hemisphere. The exposition will be held on groun<ls em-bracing several hundred acfes. located to the north of Hui-
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ric. 1-4 INTERIOR or M.\i..\K.\ rALr.,s station. FIG. 1; <;OVF.RNIN<. APPARATUS. ends of the shear near its lowest point. The plows are pro-vided with a thike or leveler, which is operated from withinthe cab b\- means of worm gear and a shaft outside, aroundwhich a chain is wound, as shovvn in the illustration. Thebracing for the shear is made from old llat and T-rails andthe back of the shear is supported by \ertical sections ofT-rails which slide up and down in guides made to receivethe head of the rail. The cab is closed with a door on eacr.side, or an opening which on its lower half is provided witlia door, with heavy curtains above, which can be pulle<idown to meet the door, and on the opposite side from th:;attendant who operates the Iluke can be closed entirely,making the cab very comfortable for the workmen. Theplow is operated by three men, one for the controller, oneto operate and adjust the shear and ihike and one to watchthe trolley pole. In addition to this equip

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