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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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weather timecards. As to computing headway, he uses the half-tripsheets, as is the practice of Mr. Jewell, of the ChicagoCity Railway. In relation to the rush trip, he says: It is usual to bunch the cars as much as possible tomeet the rush travel morning and evening, or at anyother time of day occasion may require, but it is not wiseto allow too long a time to elapse between cars even ifthe volume of traffic is not large. We show herewith a specimen time table of the Citi-zens Company on East Liberty street. It is a week-dayschedule, cable line, with 10 straight day runs, 16 straightnight runs and 10 swings and 10 trippers, in all 36 carswith 46 crews, 361 trips and 3,610 miles run. THE LALLA ROOKH OF THE TORONTOAND SCARBORO. A new departure in street car building has been madeby the Toronto & Scarboro Electric Railway, which isproving very popular with the public. The specifica-
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lllh 1-ALL\ KooMl (.IK lliE TORONTO A SCARBORl*. 63t> 1^ (atct J\aiWxi^ li^cVleW tions as to construction and decoration were prepared byGeneral Manager A. W. Dingman, assisted by the com-panys engineer, Jolin Gault. The car is 29 feet overall and 8 feet wide. It is divided into three compart-ments, the central one being 15 feet, and the end ones 7

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