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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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Aslitabula, and it will do all kinds of freighthauling as well as passenger trafific. All the franchises have beensecured and the l)onds are practically sold. It is expected that theroad will be in operation by September ist next. It will be builton steam road lines by the Eastern Construction Co. A park willbe established near Middlcficld, O. The president of the companyis Mr. H. F. French; secretary and treasurer. Mr. W. C. Pomeroy. Berlin Passenger Traffic. Mr. Frank H. Mason, consul-general at Berlin, Germany, writesthat most of the Berlin city lines arc the property of the GrosseBerliner Strassenbahn-Gesellschaft, which carried last year 316,-000,000 passengers, an increase of 18,000,000 over the previous year.It received as fares 28.903.833 marks ($6,879,722), an average, in-cluding commutation and all other tickets, of 2.17 cents per fare.Within the city limits the uniform fare for any distance is 10 pfen-nigs (2.5 cents), but tliere ,-irc no transfers issued. From the central
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s.\i>\s Il.KU.s Ml- -iMK iii:-ri(iirr r.\rii-:ii itv. bar which is part of the plow frame is pivoted near the niiildle ofthe car. The side wings arc about 18 ft. long and are pressed outwardby a wheel located at the rear of the vestibule, having an outwardmovement of about 8 ft. Ihcre is a rudder on the nose of theplow for taking the snow from the double strip between the twotracks, and it can Iw set to the right or the left by a lever on thetopi of the plow. All gales an! highway crossings on the line aremarked by means of posts and when the operator of the plow«»» rjiic of these markers he raises the plow alK>nl two inches,and when he is sure that he is on the crossing Jie drops it im-mediately upon Ihc rail. The Imxcs that are shown on the backof the car contain sand and salt. One of the photographs showsplow No. 1800 cleaning a track on the Pontiac division wherethe snow was aUiut three feet deep. Each car and plow combined weighs almut 24 tuns Kaeh is IKirlions of the ci

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