File:The street railway review (1891) (14781198243).jpg

Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
f loam for a width of 25 ft. which the company main-tains. The best known type of special work, 10-in. construction,that can be found on the market is used by the company. Thiswork was nearly all built by the Johnson Company and Wm.Wharton, Jr., & Co. In snow cleaning, sleds are used lo carry off snow plowed inthe congested parts of the city while in the suburbs levellers are Eagle street, near thelsea creek, East Boston; the Charlestownon Hamblen street, near the Mystic river and .Maiden Bridge,Charlestown; the Dorchester on Ereeport street and Dorches-ter Bay, Dorchester; and the Harvard on Boylstou street, Cam-bridge, near the Charles river. These stations supply current to lines as follows: AUston: Brighton, part of Brookline and into Newton. Central: The city proper, South Boslou and iiarts of Brook-line. Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. East Cambridge: Parts of Cambridge, Charlestown, Somer-viUe, Medford, and at times, part of (he city proper. East Boston: East Boston and Chelsea.
Text Appearing After Image:
used. The track cleaners used are those made by the Van Doru& Dutton Company. POWER STATIONS. The Boston Elevated Railway Company operates seven powerstations in the Metropolitan district, the lines being with threeexceiilions within a radius of six miles from the City Hall. Itis about 13 miles by the companys lines from the end of one ofthe north-westerly to the end of one of the south-easterly linesfed by these stations. The extreme distance apart of these sta-tions is about six miles. The names and location are the AUstou on Bralntree street,AUston, near Cambridge street and the Boston & Albany Rail-road; the Central on Albany street, near the South Bay andWaltham street, Boston; the East Cambridge on North street,and near Millers river, East Cambridge; the East Boston on Charlestown: Parts of Charlestown, Medford, SomerviUe,Maiden and Everett. Dorchester: Dorchester and part of Roxbury. Harvard: Cambridge, Watertown, Arlington and into Newton,Brighton and Brookline. The ag

Note About Images