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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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ful of all the new ideas is thestep down transformers. By the use of these trans-formers, as will be evident at a glance, the riding publicon entering the car instantly shrink to half size thusenabling the company to haul twice as many passengersas could be done on American roads. The exhaustlesspossibilities of the transformer would seem to instantly solvethe no seat no fare problem and—theres millions in it. We feel somewhat aggrieved that our American friendsshould have gone across the ocean to make public anysuch radical departure as depicted for we can solemnlyaffirm they never had anything like this over here in theStates. But after all there is some consolation in thesymmetry of the outfit which does away with the unsightly trolley. On reflection we are inclined tobelieve the artist must have seen through a glass darkly—perhaps a whole jug. FREIGHT AND EXPRESS SERVICE. It seems too bad that millions of people are deprivedof low priced freight and express service by means of
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THE NEW ERA CAR. also of brakes will save the motorman a lot of hard work.The elevation of the rear end of the car probablyarises from the sudden stop just made. The ellipticform of the small guide wheels is due to excessiveskidding on two sides, and we are not prepared todeny that the wheels are very cheap in first cost,being made of flour barrel heads. On account of theunusual height of the rear step passengers enter at thefront platform. Judging from her stature as compared with the others,the lady in 1. f. e. must be one of the new women for thecar has stopped to receive her and the motorman standsat attention. Nor should the delsarte expression ofthe man with corns on his heels be forgotten among thenumerous distracting objects of interest which this start-ling illustration contains. street railways on account of some legislative act or somelapse in charters, because the original applicant did nothave good foresight. Such a service does not injureanybodys rights, yet many roads a

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