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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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wins by length of two wheel bases, 7147; Cars on 12 minute headway, 7-59- This is Rapid Transit. The Second avenue line in Pittsburg had a strike, butit was so long ago our readers have forgotten all aboutit. A few days since the boys concluded to declare itoff, and they sensibly boxed up the paraphernalia of theassembly and returned it to the district office. Hereafterthey will confine their efforts to the running of carsinstead of a branch of the K. of L. How it is in New York: There are several hours inthe day when an attempt to board an elevated train downtown is worse than participating in rush in a foot ballgame.—Press, ^M^^^M?:- 195 IMPROVED SAFETY GATE FASTENER. ANEW fastener for platform safety gates lias beenpatented by Henry Cochran, superintendent of theLamokin Car Works. If a gate iiangs loosely.it rattles or is liable to be insecure. If tight, there is astrain upon the car at the point where the gate sets intothe eve, as every time the driver sets his brake it springs
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the dash and draws upon the eye in the car body. Bythe device illustrated all this is overcome, and also permitsof changing gates from one car to another without dangerof delay in hanging. A BIG CONSOLIDATION. AN understanding has been effected by which se\enNew York City railways are consolidated, afterthe plan of the Philadelphia Traction Company.The deal was managed b) P. A. B. Widener, ThomasDolan and William L. Elkins, with the co-operation ofEx-Secretarj of the Navy, William C. Whitney. John D. Crimmins is president of the united lines, whichunion includes the Broadway & Seventh Avenue line, theBroadway cable, the Chambers Street, the Twenty-thirdStreet Cross-town, the Ninth Avenue, the Sixth Avenue,and the Avenue C lines. The whole is controlled by theMetropoHtan Traction Company. A number of improvements and extensions are con-templated. The system is really the acquisition of the threeroads last named, as the four others were previously inunion. Henry Thompson is vice-pre

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