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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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s. This willmean the short haul business in and out of Buffalo,Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Chicago. A map hasbeen prepared showing the territory traversed l^y the LakeShore and the competing traction lines, and it is stated thatthe company will establish commutation rates to accommo-date every class of business. -•-♦^ The Central Electric Railway Association has adopted aninsignia in the form of a button bearing the letters C. E.R. A. in gold on a dark blue background, encircling a mod-ern interurban car in miniature. The buttons can be securedby members on application to the secretary, J. H. Merrill,Traction Terminal Building, Indianapolis, Ind. io6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVIIL No. WHITEWASHING A LONDON TUBE RAILWAY BY ALBERT H. BRIDGE Fver since the tube railway idea took practical shape, newand interesting problems have been continually presentingthemselves for the engineer—electrical and otherwise—todeal with. It was but natural that it should fall to the lot of
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INTERIOR OF CAR FOR WHITEWASHING A LONDON TUBE the earlier ones to bear the burden of pioneering work invarious directions, and later undertakings have to a consider-able extent profited somewhat jargely by their experience.In this connection it will be of interest to illustrate the abilityto rise to the occasion of one tube railway staff which had toundertake a new duty. The terminals of the Central London Railroad, and also itspermanent way, are under the charge of the Ways and WorksEngineer. E. P. Grove, the chief engineer, is responsiblefor the third-rail and track-rail bonding, and also for thelighting of the tunnels. To him it seemed that this work ofhis department could be carried out far better if there wereimproved lighting, and further that the lighting of the tunnelswould be more complete if the walls of the tunnels werewhitened so as to diffuse the light, which otherwise was con-fined to the immediate neighborhood of the lamps themselves. It was evident that any whitewashi

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