Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (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

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oints in the citymust be in operation within the five following years. A new com-pany, representing American and local capital, succeeds the oldone, and the electric and other new material required has beenordered from the United States, as happened in the case of Limastwo suburban lines now in successful operation. Birmingham Track Records. The Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. has had prepared,as a concise record convenient for reference, drawings showing itstracks in plan and profile, together with pertinent data as to theclass of construction, materials, pavements, character of specialwork, location of poles, etc. These drawings are upon sheets 46 >i7/2 >■> the record proper being within border lines 42 x \$Vi in.The character of the pavement is indicated by section lines,macadam being shown by diagonal lines run from lower left toupper right, brick pavement by vertical broken lines, granite blocksby double sectional diagonal lines from lower left to upper right
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SECTION OF DRAWING SHOWING TRACKS IN PLAN WITH DATA. \ when the motor automatically cuts out. The pump supplies fivelines of hose of 140 lb. pressure. At various points about the shopsand yards arc placed 26 lines of 2;2-in. hose. Where these are out-side of buildings and would be exposed to the weather a wooden.shelter house about 3/< ft. square is placed over the hose racks.By arrangement with the captain of the nearest engine house of theChicago fire department, frequent inspections of the premises aremade at unexpected times. The inspector turns in an alarm andthe efficiency of the apparatus is tested each time, water being puton all lines of hose that bear on.the quarters from which the alarmwas sent. .\ collision in Chicago between an automobile and an electric carthat resulted in favor of the former occurred recently, when anautomobile crashed into the rear of the car and forced it off thetracks and to the curb. The car was hauled to the barn by thewrecking crew, while the a

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