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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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the distance from one station to the otheris over Washington park, so that underground work willnot be as expensive as if otherwise. There is the fur- 458 (^licctj\aiWciy-li^^ ther possibility that in time the Twenty-first street plantwill be run by electricity, but as it is over 33^ miles fromthe electric station, and is very large, having an averageload of 1,000 horse-power, the advantages of the changewould be greatly reduced. Along with the extensions of the various electric lineswill come the application of the railway current to thelighting and power supply of all the barns. Besides the the other load is lightest and when it can be most con-veniently taken care of. The new electric lines, when completed, will comprisein all 130 miles of road, and it is calculated that 300motor cars will ultimately be needed. The territory cov-ered by the system and its relation to the electric stationcan be best seen by the accompanying map. The electric station, which should be visited by every
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MAI OK CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY SYSTEM. repair shop at State and Twenty-first streets, there aresix barns. At five of these there are from one to fourcar elevators. In all there are eleven elevators. Twoso-horse-power motors will be installed for each elevator.At present, steam engines are in use at the barns, eachrunning several hundred feet of line shafting. Theexpensiveness of small steam plants is well known, andthe aggregate saving along this line will be considerable.The Hghting and power load will come at a time when electric railway man coming to Chicago, is a model ofneatness and good engineering. It is a station in whichno extravagant expenditures have been made, but it hasalways been the policy of the City Railway managementto omit nothing which will add to the economy and relia-bility of its plants. The station is a one story building,35 feet high and 130 by 147 feet. The boiler room is57 by 130 feet and has space for 14 Mohr water tubeboilers, one-half of which are now in pla

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