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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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. .IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIHMHillllll il AAAatllKkMirmkAAII ill! nil ■■mil Mil quiuiiii irIViniillllNU CIVS. Ml. After a long season of parlance all the leases for the useof the Union Loop have been signed, Leslie Carter, presi-dent of the South Side Elevated Railroad, being the last toagree to the terms of the lease. All the differences weresettled in a conference held October 2 and on the followingmorning the trains of the Lake Street Elevated Railroadran around the loop without any previous announcement.The Metropolitan West Side Elevated began operationaround the loop October 11. The South Side ElevatedRailroad Company has yet to complete the connection onHarrison street, a half square between its structure and theLoop. All the supplies are athand and the work is progress-ing rapidly and will be finishedby October 25. The Alley Ltrains will be drawn around theloop by tlie locomotives now inuse until its cars are equippedfor electric traction. Some pro-gress is being made in this work
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I HH I iKi:, 11:45 ■■ The entire plant was ilesigned aiul furnished by RobertPoole & Son Company, lialtimore. The cars of the com-pany are stored in the sheds at either end of the line.Horses were procured at once and 50 cars, the cable trailers,were put in service on the lines. The Metropolitan Rail-road Company tendered the use of 25 horse cars. Planswere made at once for erecting a temporary structure aiuIinstalling machinery to drive the cables. The station ofthe Washington, Alexandria & Mt. Vernon Electric Rail-road on 13^ street was also seriously damaged. The photograph of the fire from which our illustration wasreproduced was taken at 11 •..\^ ;). m., 30 minutes after thefire started ; it was taken by E. R. Myers, and is quite ararity in the art. The other two views show the ruins, oneof them being taken as a charge of dynamite was explodedunder the front wall the following day. Since the above was put in type the directors have decidedto adopt the inidergroun&lt

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