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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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perintendent of the South Chicago CityRailway, has adopted the plan of having the inspectors thattravel on the road regulate the electric heaters on the variouscars. That is, the controlling switch which changes the con-nections of the heaters so as to give varying degrees of heatis locked Up so as to be accessible only to the inspectors. There are two reasons for this practice. One is that theconductors are liable to be poor judges of what is the righttemperature for a car, or often careless about seeing that theright temperature is maintained. The other reason is, thatin turning the ordinary heater controller switch a conductorwith little knowledge of electricity or the knack of breakingarcs, is liable to turn the switch so as to draw an arc that willruin it. Consequently the control of these switches is putentirely in the hands of the inspectors. Tlicre is, however,a main switch in the heater circuit whereby the conductorscan shut off the heaters entirely. A switch suitable for the
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l.NTEltlOR OF CUYAHOGA FALLS POWER HOUSE—A., B. & C. R. R. where all repairs are made, and in addition the wheel workof the Cleveland Electric Railway. The company has justcompleted a large double-truck snow plow equipped withfour 50-horse-power motors, which will serve as a switchengine for transferring coal, etc. In summer this plow willbe used as a locomotive to transfer excursion trains on theCleveland, Akron & Columbus Railroad to Silver Lake, oneof the most noted resorts in northern Ohio, a distance of i/^-niile via the Akron, Bedford & Cleveland. The Imperial Tramways Company, of Stockton, Eng.,has applied to the Board of Trade for Parliamentary sanc-tion to build a trolley road. It is proposed to make thegauge 3 feet, 6 inches, in order to offer as little obstructionas possible in narrow streets. The council considered thepetition and imposed some conditions upon the granting ofa franchise. The trolley poles are to be constructed so thatthey can be used for light

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