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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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one truck. Fig. 8 is the companys standard truck, which it builds at its ownshops. Dec. 15, 1900.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 745 111 KiK. ) irc sliowM difffrciUc views ijf the Mt. I.owe divisionfrom Alladfiia lo Alpine Tavern. Mr. SniiUi adds tlie following infornialioii reg.-irding (lie praiiiicof cleaning cars: All of our cars except llie tliree used for hauling trailers arcui)li()Istercd in plush and arc cleaned throughout once a week withcompressed air. Owing lo the. fact that our cars He over half anhour after each round trip at the Pasadena terminal, we arc enabledto keep them swept and the windows very clean at a slight cost. Wenever use water on the windows or car bodies, but use for windowcleaning Bon-ami soap, and one man can clean the windows olone car perfectly in 20 minutes. For car bodies we use a liquidcar cleaner, which we find has increaseil the life of the varnish sixmonths and keeps the surface of the body always looking bright. OPENING OF ALBANY & HUDSON RAILWAY.
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(Jrailite Gate, Ye Alpiue Tavern, and View iHtween Eclioand .Miiine.FIG. 9-SCENES OX THE WT. LOWE DIVISION. The aisles of all cars are carpeted, we having found after a greatdeal of experimenting that carpet wears the longest and is quitean attraction to passengers, and has the moral effect of assisting nsto keep the cars cleaner, as we find that passengers of all classeswill invariably scrape their feet before entering the car, and it isvery seldom that cars are littered up with peanut shells, etc. Weare also very strict regarding the rules posted in both ends of carsprohibiting the spitting on the floor, and the carpet has its effectin preventing that disgusting practice. Ihc formal opening of this line occurred on November 22<1 last.On that (lay a parly of KX) invited guests, including a number ofgentlemen prominent in engineering and manufacturing circles,left the Grand Central Station, New York, at 9 a. m., by specialtrain, and were taken to Hudson. Here two of the new electri

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