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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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terminal andanchorage pole. This is very substantially constructedand made to carry a strain of19,000 pounds with safety. Allthe wires and cables are dead-ended at this point, in strain in-sulators capable of sustaining6,000 pounds each and thewhole frame is heavily guyetto two heavy iron anchor stubs,the setting of which requirednearly 30 yards of concrete.Tile main load or strain car-ried by this frame work is di- REPORT OF BALTIMORES CAR FENDERCOMMITTEE. Some months ago F. C. Latrobe, mayor of Baltimore,John A. Robb, city register, and A. E. Smyrk, citycommissioner, were deputed by the city council of Balti-more to make report upon the subject of fenders for street cars, and to select sometype or types for the city use.Mendes Cohen, C. E., Balti-more, was made engineer to thecommission, and his recentlypublished report is a valuableaddition to the literature ofstreet railway devices.Mr. Cohen says: It is somewhat curious thata similar, though by no meansidentical problem, was pre-
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FIGS. 10, 11 AND 12.—TOWER WAGON. rected to angle iron cross arms which are not clearlyshown in the picture and each one of these cross armsare so tied together as to bring a general strain on allparts of the structure. Figures 10, 11 and 12 show the tower wagon in usehere for line construction, as well as some of the sur-roundings through which our cars pass. Figure 9 shows a motor car on one of the lines con-structed by the New Orleans Traction Company, and isa good representation of the general conditions along theseveral routes now in operation. President D. F. Henry, of the Federal Street &Pleasant Valley Railway Company, of Pittsburg, hasinvented a new non-osciUating truck, of lo-foot wheelbase. A trial with a 9-foot base was very successful. sented for solution some sixty years ago, when thesteam railroads of the country, then few in number,found themselves in constant danger, and subjectedto much expense from cattle wandering upon the rail-way tracks, which were then unf

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