File:The street railway review (1891) (14757119344).jpg

Identifier: streetrailway03amer (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
e insulation is nearly perfect, andthe device presents a neat appearance on the line. The Marion Street Railway, of Marion, Ind., havecommenced work on a line of road to Gas City, via theSoldiers Home. The Ansonia Electric Companys newline of overhead railway fixtures will be used on theentire road. Prospects are said to be very bright for an electricrailway for both passenger and freight business betweenMiddletown and Frederick, Md. It is expected to buildthe road on its own right of way. Another step towardthe steam road. (^tied.l^^mW^j^VleW 393 G. E. 800. OMNIBUS COACH. THE General Electric Company have made severalimportant changes in their single reduction motor.The new machine is designated as G. E. 800, andis about what is generally rated as a 25-horse-powermotor. The designation 800 represents the number ofpounds horizontal effort it is capable of e.xerting continu-ously through a 33-inch wheel. The motor is completelyclosed in a water-tight case, so that it could be run under
Text Appearing After Image:
MANY street railways find the necessity forusing such conveyances as the omnibus coach,either on special occasions from terminus orpoints along the line to picnic grounds and similar places,or regularly as feeders to lines where the service will notwarrant the laying of a track. Such coaches are for saleby F. N. Sweeney, of Detroit, and have side seats 10 feetlong, with an aisle 31 inches wide between. The body ofthe coach is very much like that ofa street car, having ventilating win-dows, bell-pull, etc. The body ishung on four elliptic springs and hasfive windows on each side. It ridessmoothly, will accommodate a goodsized load, and is easily drawn byone team of horses. THE OHARA EXHIBIT. T NEW RAILWAY MOTOR G. E. 8oO. water without injury, making the motor -water-proof in something more than name. It is 300 pounds lighter than the W. P. 15-horse-power. The armature, which is similar to that on the old W. P., is either ring or drum. It is designed to be easilj^ taken apart for inspe

Note About Images