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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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the carbuilders art. Now, however,strength and capacity are as necessary as lightness and 12 acres of land at the confluence of Brandy wine Creekand Christiana river, with good wharfage and with the P.W. & B. Railroad tracks running directly in front of theplace. The locality thus affords the best of shippingadvantages both by land and water. It is needless to speqk of past work or present facilities,as these go without saying, in an establishment of suchage and responsibility. It may be remarked, however,that 7,000,000 feet of well-seasoned lumber is kept instock, with sheds for 2,000,000 feet of dry lumber. Twoimmense cargoes of Oregon pine are brought each yearfrom Vancouver, B. C, it having been found superiorto our own southern pine. The standing room in theerecting shops and paint shops is sufficient for seventy-five standard steam cars or perhaps two hundred and fiftystreet cars. Storage room for seventy-five to one hun-dred more cars is close at hand. In fact, th.e largest
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THE JACKbON A- SHARP CAR WORKS, WILMINGTON, DEL. smallness were during horse-car days. Thus the steamcar builder succeeded naturally to street-car building andthe same skill and care of design is exercised in bothbranches. For thirty years the Jackson & Sharp Company hasbeen building cars. At the beginning there were but30,000 miles of railroad in the United States, now thereare over 100,000 miles. Then only the larger and oldercities of the country possessed street railway S3s-tems, now over a thousand towns and cities on the conti-nent have some means of intramural transit. In 1S63 JobH. Jackson and Jacob F. Sharp founded the now greatfirm, in a modest way, and by unceasing industry andhonest dealing, have so far gained the confidence of therailway world that the company has grown with thegrowth of this great industry, to its present proportions.Admirably situated, the Jackson & Sharp works cover order will find a ready reception and a small order quiteas distinguished atten

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