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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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use is equipped with a 250-horse-powcr Erie-Ball with electricity and the remainder in building cxlcnsious.Xaugle, llolcomh & Co. have the work in charge, andare pushing it rapidly. George Weston is the engineer andsuperintendent. A line will be built in Harrison street, running westfrom 48th street, where it connects with the MetropolitanElevated to Harlem. Also a line beginning at Robinson a\ e-uue and Harrison street, running south on Robinson to J^nilstreet, west on 22nd to Harlem avenue, south on Harlem to26th street, thence through Riverside, crossing the l)es-plaines river north of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincytracks, and thence in a westerly direction through Gross-dale to Lagrange, comprising some i 7 miles of double trackin addition to the 13 miles of railroad leased from the North-ern Pacific. Later the line will be extended to Hinsdale in Dulagccomity. The overhead trolley will be used. There is alreadyconstructed track in Harrison streetrunning from llarleni as
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POWER HOUSE OF THE TUSCARAWUS RAILROAD COMlANV AT MIDVAI.E, (>. engine and four D-62 Thomson-Houston generators. Thecompany owns five cars, built by the G. C. Kuhlman Com-pany, of Cleveland, each equipped with two 3o-horse-po\\ erWestinghouse 12-A motors and G. E. type K controllers.The line was opened for traffic on September 10, cars runningon 60 minutes headway. Since cold weather a skating parkwith band stand, etc., has been built on the open ground :iithe right of the car barn, which acts as a stimulant for traffic.The officers of the company are, president, William Christy,of Akron ; vice-president and superinten<lent, C. E. Mitch-ner, of New Philadelphia; secretary and treasurer, C. 11.Ilowland. CHICAGO SUBURBAN RAILWAY COMPANY. The .Sniiurhan Railway Compan\, which has Uascd llicChicago, Marleni & Batavia and the Chicago iV .^oulli-western divisions of the Chicago & Northern Pacific Kail-road, on December 15, executed a .$3,000,000 mortgage;.$1,250,000 will be sp

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