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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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30;car house 100 by 150, equipped with transfer table, washrack, etc.; store room 10 by 45; engine room 42 by 120;boiler room 42 by 50; shop 58 by 70; armature room12 by 22. The second and third floors of the buildingare 100 feet wide by 150 feet deep. On the second floorare situated the main offices of the company, consistingof general office, office of cashier and book-keeper, andthe private office of the general manager. The thirdfloor is rented from time to time for dances, church fairs,etc. In the POWER PLANT are three Corliss engines of 350 horse-power each, one ofwhich was manufactured by the Hoover, Owens & Rent-schler Company, of Hamilton. Ohio. To each of theseengines are belted two Edison loo-kilowatt machines, hav-ing a capacity of 200 amperes each. In the boiler room stand two Hazleton tripod boilers
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CURVE AT TOP OF TEN AND ONE-HALF IER CENT GRADE. THE YOUNG.STOWN POWER STATION. he has received no financial help. The college educationhe earned for himself had to be abandoned before com-pletion on account of weak eyes. Going into the dr)goods business he remained there for three years, the lastone serving as buyer for the A. M. Church Company,Troy. Two and a half years was spent on the road andhe then bought out the Osborn Manufacturing Company,Cleveland, O., makers of foundry supplies, with whichconcern he had wonderful success. While with this healso managed the Huron Rubber Company, and alsobecame interested in the horse road, at Lorain, O. InMay, 1893, he accepted the earnest invitation of thedirectors at Youngstown and took charge of that road.The labor involved in obtaining franchises and makingimprovements while at the same time tripling the plantwill be appreciated only by those who have beenthrough it. of 500 horse-power each, encased in brick stacks 96 feethigh. These boi

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