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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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achhaving an independent feeder direct to the power-house,and each feeder supplied with automatic circuit breakers.As will be easily apprehended, the advantage of this ar-rangement is that of independence, so that if the trolleywire of any section should break, the other 7 would beundisturbed. This practice, it is claimed, originated inIndianapolis. Grounding the return is effected by bury-ing old car wheels, about % oi a mile apart, connectedwith the supplementary wires between the rails. COLUMBUS CONSOLIDATION. IN an interview with Emerson McMillan, of EmersonMcMillan & Co.. of 40 Wall street. New York, thereport of the sale of the Columbus Consolidatedrailway was verified. The history of the deal beginswith an option good until March 30, and a renewal gooduntil April 30. The matter of sale was delayed by thepurchasing sjmdicate because the West Broad Street roadcould not be brought into the combination. This causeda halt in proceedings until a majority of this stock wassecured.
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THE SWITCH BOARD. In our engraving of the switchboard, the portion to theright, seen but dimly, is the feeder-board, and that to theleft is the switch-board proper. The system of repairs is so effectfve that a trolley wirebroken at Minnehaha, 6 miles out, is repaired by thelinemen at power-house No. in 45 minutes. A hundred-arc light machine Excelsior •—Hochhau-sen system—will be also installed to light the lovely resort.Lake Harriet, which will induce considerably more trafficthis year than before. The McGuire Manufacturing Company has putup more than its usual amount of work lately havingamong other orders contracts for trucks at Montgomery,Ala.; Lima, O.; Keokuk, la.; Logansport, Ind.; CedarRapids, la.; Jacksonville, Ills.; Clinton, la., and the Cen-tral Manufacturing Company, of Baltimore. The consideration is generally supposed to be $1,140,-000. This sum, with $800,000 bonded indebtedness andthe liabilities, makes the road worth $2,000,000 to thepurchasers. The syndicate m

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