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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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MAIN STREET—TERRE HAUTE. IND. CI 4 ^iacd/J\aiWay9^A/icv/ No. 12 motor is concerned. There can be no doubt butthat this suspension is easier on the track and car. One of the first things to attract the visitors attentionon arriving at Terre Haute, is the peculiar position ofthe signal bell rope on the cars. The conductors end,instead of being hitched to thehood, as usual, hangs down andis passed under the hand rail,terminating in a pear shapedhandle, about three feet above The power plant is the work of Westinghouse, Church,Kerr & Company, and is one of the smallest street rail-way plants in the country using mechanical stokers.There are three horizontal return flue boilers 54 inchesby sixteen feet. The saving, over hand firing, is unques-tionable, as only one man is kepton duty in the boiler room.The ashes are thrown into adump car of special design andhauled off to ballast the remote
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the platform. The reason for this is soon learned, whenit is seen that conductors are required to step off the carto help women and children off and on, and the positionof the bell cord, where they can reach it from the ground,saves much time. The plan of building platforms nowadopted by the management is to extend the dash so asto have steps only on the right side of the rear platform,and the left side of the front platform. Another changebeing inaugurated, is to take the slats off the car floorand put down rubber mats. These mats keep all moist-ure from dripping through on to the motors, besidesbeing more easily cleaned than the slats. They are alsomuch pleasanter to walk on, and give the car a moreattractive appearance. The road is, for its size, remarkably well equipped fordoing its own work. In addition to the repair shop, ithas a department for building and rebuilding cars, whichemploys three car carpenters and one car painter. Manycars have been entirely re-built, and new trail

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