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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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It is designed to be easilj^ taken apart for inspection and repairs. Only 500 pounds of its weight bears directly on the car axle so that the rail joints will receive less pounding in the future. The changes summed up are: complete enclosure of the motor, reduction in weight, and shifting of center of gravity away from the car axle. The advertising privilege ofcars and stations of the Alley Lin this city has been given to theStreet Car Advertising Company,of Chicago, which also has thecontract for the cars of the Chi-cago City Railway. HE OHara Air Company is comfortably ensconced at Z s, between posts 3 and 4. Here may be seen the latest airbrake on the market, in operation. Both steam and street car types are shown, and the representative in charge will take the utmost pleasure in telling the merits of the new brake. Mr. OHara has been at work on this piece of mechanism for some time and at last finds his ideas embodied in a brake that satisfies his ideal of what a brake should be.
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OMNIBUS COACH. The Brooklyn bridge has been open for travel tenyears. During its first year the bridge cable cars carriedfive million passengers. For the past year the record isforty millions. The Point Defiance road at Tocoma is building a boat56 feet long, to run from Point Defiance to QuarterMasters Harbor, and other points in connection with itselectric lines. 394 <^!^\MJtdr)^aA\^u^^ GOWANS RAIL CLEANER. A RAIL cleaning device, which is at once simpleand effective, has been patented by J. A. Gowan,of 23 Gladstone avenue, Toronto, Canada. Ap-preciating the necessity of a clean rail, especially in elec-tric service, Mr. Gowan has invented a revolving broomwhich in both wet and dry weather gives a better con-tact between wheel and iron. He does not endeavor tosweep the whole track, leaving that in heavy storms forthe snow plows, but offers a device which in ordinary ftg-r—tP^. j._ -__ -.-e^s^ ^-^ Tl n i ILL yLi^ - \ ^■511 II TORONTO RAILWAY rM m Wi^Mi — II ^m 1 1 ^ f;3 <i

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