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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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cars. All cars are equipped withthe excellent De Witt sand boxes. An important part of this roads equipment is the snowplow manufactured by the Massachusetts Car Company, of Boston. Gloversville and Johnstown are noted forheavy snow and the electric plough has won the highestcommendation for its work this winter. It is a noseplough, the nose being 3-feet high and concaved, and isprovided with wings; wings not for flying but for makingthe snow fly. CAYADUTTA PARK. The enterprising management last summer, began thedevelopment of a beautiful park on its main line, betweenJohnstown and Fonda. This park covers 25 acres ofwild and picturesque scenery, with a brook babbling andbounding through it. A dancing pavilion, refreshmentstand, band stand and numerous summer houses, rusticseats, beautiful walks, pure cold spring water, are amongthe many attractions. During the summer scarcely aday passed without one or more picnic parties enjoyingthe beauties of Cayadutta park. It is intended also to
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PLAN OF CAR ITOUSK AND RKPAIR SHOPS. ^;Jied.9\ailw^U\ayi^ ■J .-.7 make an artificial pond of three or four acres, which willadd much to the attraction of the place. All the companys lines are single track with turnouts.Cars are operated on a schedule exactly similar to thoseof steam railroad instead of under certain regular head-way, as is usual on electric roads. Each conductor is pro-vided with a blue print time table, showing time each caris due at each turnout, and meeting points are indicatedby a circle around the figures. There is probably notanother electric railroad in the country operated so closeto schedule time. A record is kept of each trips earn-ing and trips are taken off orput on as the traffic warrants.The company maintains aprivate telephone line, withinstruments at main office atGloversville, car house, powerhouse, Fonda, and generalmanagers residence. Most prominent in the in-ception of an enterprise whichhas revolutionized the railroadsituation in Fulton County,

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