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Identifier: streetrailwayrev07amer (find matches)
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
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ham Company,having secured the entire equipment for high speed doubletrucks for the Detroit River & St. Clair Railway, the entireequipment of double and single trucks for freight and pas-senger cars, also a switching locomotive for distributingstandard steam railroad freight cars for the Mason City &Clear Lake Traction Company, Mason City, Iowa, and anorder for single trucks from the Waterloo & Cedar FallsRapid Transit Company. Suburban managers seem quickto appreciate the merits of Peckhams double trucks, theorders for which are almost ecjual to those for the famoussingle trucks, which are known the world over. (^ftlwd^^f^ail/^)^^ 201- THE SOLUTION OF AN IMPORTANTSTREET RAILWAY PROBLEM. To the street railway man the interurban or long distancesuburban service is especially attractive, not only on accountof large profits, but because of its greater freedom fromcompetitors. This special form of street railway work pre-sents a most difficult problem to the engineer. He finds
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NO. 27 BRILL TRUCK. himself obliged within city limits and in paved streets to usea tram rail with paving close to his rail head. The headmust be shallow so that traffic may not be too much incon-venienced, while the curves from the necessity of passingstreet corners must be very sharp. These conditions forcehim to use a wheel with a very narrow tread to avoid touch-ing the paving and a shallow flange in order not to cut thetram of the rail at the bottom. For economy of construction, stability of roadbed and

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