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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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e order for street cars ever bookedhas come into the hands of western manufacturersfor construction. Messrs. Kileyand Cook, of theLaclede Car Company, of St. Louis, have obtained thecontract to build for the Third Avenue Cable Line, NewYork Citv, 375 cars. Of this number 200 are to beclosed cars, 22 feet long and 30 feet over all, and 175open, 30 feet in length and 38 feet over all. The open able to turn out the contract number of cars per month,in addition to their regular business, which will not beslighted or interfered with in the least. A SUPERIOR ROAD. AT West Superior, Wis., the street railway company^as is usual with street railway companies every-where, has improved the appearance of the townby an elegantly constructed power house at the cornersof two principal streets. The building is a solid brickstructure, two stories in height and 50x150 in dimension.The interior is handsomely finished and the local papersgive numerous compliments upon the taste displayed bythe directors.
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THE PULLMAN DOUIiLE-UELK CAR—LXTERIOR. cars are to be latticed from the top of the seat-back tothe floor, thus insuring against accident. The entrancesare at the platforms and there is a center aisle with twelvereversible seats on either side. The gripman stands uponthe extra long platform, and as there is a grip lever anda brake lever at each platform, the driver simply changeshis position instead of turning the car at the end of theroute. The Laclede people will use their own trucks on theorder, and are very justly proud of the victory in bring-ing the order to the West. The work called for is foras fine an equipment as can be placed on wheels, anddeliver) commences March ist. The facihties of theLaclede Company are such, however, that they will be Three large Babcock-Wilcox boilers furnish a com-bined output of 450-horse-power, and the floor and wallof the engine room is of solid cement. Three 80-horse-power Rejnolds-Corliss engines and a large water pumphave also been installed.

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