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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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t. girder rails in the city, and four miles of 70-lb., T-railson the private right of way to Cascade Park. The Parkline was constructed at great cost in order to keep the gradesbelow 1.5 per cent. One large cut required the removal of70,000 cu. yds. of material and one fill had to be made 30 ft.high and 900 ft. long. The girder rails and the special workwere made by the Johnson Company, and the steam roadspecial work was constructed bv the Cleveland Frog & 1,000 ft. are lightning arresters, made by the General Elec-tric Compan). The rolling stock consists of 10 vestibule cars, with i6-ft.bodies, and 20 nine-bench open cars and five i6-ft. vestibulecars, all mounted on McGuire Columbia trucks; a sweeperand a sprinkler. The cars are equipped with Westinghouse12 A, 30-h. p. motors and G. E. B-3 controllers ; electricbrakes are attached. The cars are all heated by electricity. Although this system has not a large population fromwhich to draw patronage, yet every detail of construction
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SCENKS ON IHK 1,I> NKW CASTLE TRACTION C0M1■A^ Crossing Company. White oak tics 6x8 in. x 7 ft., wereused. The joints were staggered and bonded with twoNo. o, solid copper wires to each joint. The sharpest curveon the road is of 30-ft. radius. Side pole construction is used; white cedar poles 30 ft,in length, 8 in. top, and 40 ft. long and 7 in. top, beingplanted according to needs. The trolley wire, No. o, wasfurnished by the John A. Roebling Sons Company. Thelengths of sections of line range from 4,000 ft. to threemiles, depending on the conditions of service. All the linesare independent of the others and each one is connected toa circuit breaker at the station. The feeders tap into theirrespective lines at the square where all the divisions centerand at every fourth pole thereafter. At intervals of about and equipment is as complete and substantial as may befound in the large cities. The officers of this enterprisingcompany are: R. R. Quay, president; Arthur Kennedy,vice-pres

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