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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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-, Minneapolis, and two fromthe Brill Company, Philadelphia, which also furnishedtwo flat cars. Each car has a seating capacity of 48 pass-engers, but on special occasions has carried 85 persons.Trains are drawn by steam locomotives, which are fromboth the Grant Locomotive Works and the H. K. PorterCompany. Weight, 18 tons. Fare is 5 cents and ticketsare collected by conductors on the cars. Trains at pres-ent run every 30 minutes. The round house is at theEast Morning Side terminus and is on the surface. Theportion of road on the surface is laid with 50 pound rail.A speed of from 15 to 25 miles an hour is made. Thegreatest height of structure from curb stone to rail is 28feet. At the round house terminus, the road reaches apoint 200 feet above its starting point in the citj-. The Rapid Transit Company has in addition to the
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DIVISION STREET STATION OX 2) DEGREES, lO FOOT CLk^t. a 27 degree lo feet cur^■e in viaduct with a total angleof 86 degrees. The tracks are lO feet centers and are laid with 35pound steel rail. On curves, tracks are spread to 11 feetI inch, superelevation obtained by means of wedge shapedstrips on the ties. Switches used are split sw itches. No.5 frogs, and the cross covers are arranged to throw bothends with one lever. The stations on the elevated line are four in number,and are located above the intersecting streets and atpresent are built on the north side only of the track.Two stairways lead down to the street surface. Thebuildings are frame 12x18 feet on floor and 9 feet tocornice with wide roof projection. Cars are run two and three in a train as necessitvrequires. They are 30 foot bodies and handsomely fur-nished within and without. Four are from the shops of elevated line, 3J^ miles of surface line. This is to beextended and several branch lines built at once, giving first-c

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