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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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panysown equipment being used throughout. Six 80 kilowattgenerators are already placed and two additional gener-ators of similar tjpe will be added next month. Theswitchboard is justly Mr. Barbours particular delight,being built of selected Spanish cedar, with a special slatepanel for fuses, to which fuse terminals are fasteneddirect, absolutely preventing any possibility of danger from and is growing in popularity every day. The presentoperated route passes the Holy Cross Cemetery and abranch is also being built to Golden Gate Park, and whichwill do a large business from pleasure seekers. BernardJoost is president, and J. W. Hartzell secretary and gen-eral manager. LOOK OUT FOR THE OLD MAN. A CONDUCTOR of a Washington street car hasdivulged the system of signals by which the boys• passed the old man around which being inter-preted, means notified the drivers and conductors on theline that the superintendent was inspecting the road andto be on the look out. The scheme worked thusly:
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THOMSON-HOUSTON SWITCH-BOARD, SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN MATEO ELECTRIC POWER STATION. fire. Each feeder has its own ampere meter, lightningarrestor, switch fuse, etc., the board being altogether themost handsome and perfect on the Pacific coast. A separ-ate incandescent plant lights the car houses after midnightwhen the main lines shut down. The pit arrangementsfor examining and repairing trucks and motors are excel-lent. The machine shop for repairs is convenientlyplaced at one end of the car house, supplied with gearcutters, lathes, planer, wheel press and other needfulappliances, all operated when in use by a stationary elec-tric motor driven from the power station. The Reviewis under obligations to Mr. Barbour for favors when itsrepresentative was inspecting the road and plant. Theoperation of the line has been successful from the start, When the superintendent started out the driver inwhose car he happened to be or who saw him first wouldsignal the next approaching driver by drawing

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