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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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-; Wm. H. House, Jr., generalmanager; W. A. Hay ward, chief engineer, and RichardE. Emory, assistant engineer. It is reported that the South Baltimore lines will nextreceive the attention of the Compan\-, although it isprobable that the trolley system will be adopted thereinstead of the cable. If this is done, about 66 miles ofsingle track of the Company will then have rapid transit. SiixiAL arrangements will be made bv the LakeShore & Michigan Southern Ry to take care of dele-gatss to the Cleveland Convention, address at once. C.K. Wilbur. W. G. P. A., Chicago. A NEW DRILL. IN this age of acK anceminl the manufacturer who isnot up to the times in improvements in his line findsit hard to keep up with the procession. The constantstudv, training and experience of the W. F. and JohnBarnes Company, of Rockford, 111., is the basis of thesuccess of the firm. Early in their existence, theyadopted the policv of building only the best grade of
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machinery and by strictly following that motto, they havegrown until they are to-day among the largest manu-facturers of iron and wood working machinery, for bothsteam and foot power, in this country. The accompany-ing illustration shows one of their latest makes of up-right drills. And as nearly every street railway companycan use a machine of this kind to a great advantage, ourreaders will be interested in knowing more of its details,which are fully set forth in a finely illustrated catalogue,which the manufacturers will mail on application. COST OF MAINTENANCE OF WAY INENGLAND. THE Manchester road tramwavs. of Bradford. Eng-land, has been worked by steam for the past sevenyears. The rails are 103-pound girder pattern,and seven inches deep, laid on concrete foundations andwith the road paved rrom curb to curb. Tne line is twomiles long, one mile, 7S9 yards being double tracked,and 987 yards single track. The lines were opened Sep-tember 5,1884, and the maintenance cost for the past

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