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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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guard on the line of the Long Island R. R. Thisguard is manufactured by the Climax Stock Guard Co., Canton, O.,which has its general sales office at suite 503 Title & Trust Build-ing, Chicago. The small blocks shown in the illustration were assembled for anS-ft. double track guard on the third rail division of the LongIsland railroad and show the adaptability of this size block for ^1 ^^jjg^ —iBiyiJl^^ CLIMAX CL.W C.\TTLE CU.\RD. such nnusna! locations as are found on this line. In some placesthe guards are placed across four and six tracks, being built aroundthe third rails and ground wires. In other places switches andswitch stands are located in the center of the guards, but theblocks are of such size that they may be placed to allow for thesecontingencies and at the same time taken np and rcmuved to otherlocations and fitted there without any loss. The Long Island Railroad Co. has installed from 20 to 25 car-loads of these guards to date on the division of its line which has
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.\ i-,l..\.N CO., CINCINN.\TI. 0. Paris in lyoo, and the decoration of Mr. Thomas P. Egan, presidentof the company, with the medal of the Legion of Honor by theFrench Government; and the highest awards at the Louisiana Pin-cbase Exposition in 1904. The Boston Elevated Railway Co. has equipped all of its elevatedstations with signs that show the destination and route of each trainas it approaches the station platform. The device consists of aroller-curtain sign operated by the station master, upon which isprinted in plain letters the destination and route of the trains. recently been changed for electrical operation. The success withwhich these guards have met is attested to by their extensive useon such systems as the Pennsylvania Lines, the New York Central,the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Paul, the Chicago & Alton and the Illinois Central R. R., as wellas by many of the new electric interurban lines throughout thecountry. The sales of the c

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