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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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; J. Allan Hornsby,Monadnock building, Chicago, secretary. C. T. Snederkor, of the home office of Washburn &Moen, is on a few months trip through Europe. THE WHEELING, W. VA., ELECTRIC LINES. Review readers will remember an interesting accountof the Bellaire, Bridgeport and Martins Ferry interurbanwhich appeared in the December, 1893, issue of thismagazine. It will not be without interest, therefore, tothose who are watching the remarkable progress of inter-urban lines and the sure growth of trunk electric rail-roads to hear further of railway development in thisgrowing section of the valley of the Ohio. Just acrossthe Ohio river from the scene of our former story is themetropolis of the section. Wheeling, W. Va., a city ofmodern enterprise, historic worth and electric railwaypossibilities. Wheeling has now a population of 40,000,with seventeen miles of street railway whereon to ride.The Wheeling Railway Company, which operates theabove-mentioned track, is the result of a history.
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CAR HOUSE WHEELING, W. VA. THE TRUE INWARDNESS OF THINGS. The Buffalo Times has evolved a wonderful idea andsays: Strange that it has never been thought of until now!One of the latest inventions in steam power is that ofmaking the grate bars of furnaces hollow, and fittingthem with water pipes, so as to utilize for creating steama great deal of heat which is wasted in the ordinarygrate. Nothing strange, though. We have been tryingto have the street railway companies have hollow railsmade through which hot steam might be forced to doaway with the snow nuisance, but they will not do it. Another equally good advance would be to make thetrolley wires hollow through which the current can passwithout exposure to the rain and snow. The weather during the past month has necessitatedan almost daily change of equipment. This is the history: The Citizens Street Railway Company was incorpor-ated in 1863, and operated in 1867. Until 1887 it wasrun as a horse line, when the Wheeling Railway Com-pan

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