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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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as no entrance except fromthe shop. The doors are tin lined, and the floor beneathit is occupied by the emergency wagon and crew. No attempt has been made on the part of the companyto build cars, the work of the shop being chiefly repairs,and the conversion of old horse cars into motor cars.Fourteen snow sweepers have been built at these shops,but do not differ from those in use on this side ofthe border. The city removes snow from the streets.The average snowfall for eighteen years has been 119inches a year. A view is shown of the snow on theNotre Dame line, February 13, 1S95, when there weredrifts seven feet deep. Yet, in summer, the temperatureis sometimes 90 and 92 in the shade. The cars operated by the company are of Canadianmanufacture, except some specimen cars from Amesbury,Newburyport, and Philadelphia. The motors are G. E.800, Westinghouse 3 and 12, Thomson-Houston, Ro^al,Edison, Hochelaga, and a new motor made by the com-pany after Westinghouse designs. The General Electric
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SEVEN FEET OF SNOW NOTRE DAME LINE. (^xed/y\a^vv%j^VievV 601 K2 controller is used on all cars, which are supplied witha double brake chain for use in case of emergency on thehills; one chain being about lyi inches longer than theother. The trucks, which have rigid frames, are madeby the Canada Switch and Spring Company (Limited),K. W. Blackwell president, Charles Scott, Philadelphia,vice-president; C. H. Godfre), secretary and treasurer.A sketch of the style being built for 21-foot closed carsis shown herewith. One drawbar of each car is fittedwith a sleeve, which serves instead of a link coupling,attached in such a way that it cannot come off when notin use. The other drawbar is designed to slip into thesleeve on the drawbar of another car. Each sleeve hastwo holes for coupling pins, which register with a similarhole in each drawbar. The coupling pins are attachedto the bars with chains. POWER HOUSE. The quickest way to reach the power house of theMontreal Street Railway from the co

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