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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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- fraternity, whichpossibly accounts for its having fallen into the habit ofmoving about once a year. The old saw about failure topay rent can hardly be urged as an excuse as it hasremained with the same landlord all these years, thoughthe changes have carried its offices into four buildings.Each change, however, has been decidedly for the better,and in every instance caused by a necessity for largerquarters to accommodate its steadily increasing force andneeds. When a few months ago the Re\ikw offices the view from our windows. As ever, we are alwaysglad to welcome visiting street railway men, for whomample facilities are provided in the way of desks, writingmaterials and stenographers. Come and see us. EXPERIMENTS ON BELGIAN STEAMROADS. Experiments with electric traction are being made onthe Belgian State Railways, with the idea of determin-ing the performance of electric motors on light steamtrains, at speeds of from 12 to 37 miles an hour. As A ./r^
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OUR NKW HOME. were burned out it was decided to find quarters whichshould be ample for some time to come, and within24 hours after the wreck the entire force were at work intemporary quarters in the Old Colony building, one ofthe latest, as it is the finest of Chicagos score of skyscrapers. Several weeks were required to make theextensive suite of offices out of the large space secured,on the eighth floor, but the arrangements and furnishingof the various rooms was carried out in conformity withthe Re\iew plan and desires, and here we are nicely set-tled, with magnificent views of Lake Michigan with allits shipping on one side and the bustling streets and loftybuildings on the other. Our illustration shows glimpses of the editorial andbusiness offices and their occupants, while in the center afairly good idea is given of the Old Colony building and the experiments were simply to get data on motor performance, no overhead conductors were erected, but thetrial car was equipped with stor

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