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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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. His death, which SECRETARY EDWIN FOWLER. The present road is commanded by H. E. Andrews,president: r)r. Fowler as secretary and treasurer, andJohn J. Stanley, a son of Joseph Stanley, as generalmanager and superintendent, while still another of theStanley bo3-s is the purchasing agent. d(t4 The Broadway and Newburg owns 26 miles of singletrack, paved with Medina stone, with concrete filling.The rail is 82 and pS-pound girder, made by theJohnson Company, laid on ties 2 and 3 feet apart. Thesteepest grades are 5 and 6 per cent with curves of 40 and50 feet radius. There are 36 motor cars in use, 10 ofwhich are 21 foot and the remainder 16 foot cars. Sixtytrail cars of 16 and 21 feet also used. All the cars weremade by the J. G. Brill Company using Brill trucks andBaltimore, Fulton Foundry and Dorner & Dutton wheels.The wheel bases are 6 foot six inches, 7 foot, and 7foot 6 inches. The Edisons system and the Edisonmotors are used; as are also the Duplex register andthe Buckeje lamp.
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bVVlTCH HOARD—BROADWAY AND NEWBURG. The power house, situated on Broadway is 66 by150 feet in size and harbors four Allis - ReynoldsCorlis engines, three of 250 horse-power and one of 600.The Edison dynamos, six of 125, two of 250 horse-power,are belted direct; some 1000 feet of Munson beltingbeing the efficent transmission of the plant. The boilersare five in number and are made by the Variety IronWorks of Cleveland and have 14 feet tubes 2 1-2 inchesin diameter. The Hibernian stoker is in vogue. The feeder wire is cut in 5 sections. The W. B. Cle\e-land Switch board is of slate, and a beautiful affair fromany standpoint, as a glance at our engraving will show. The Forest City Park is reached by this line, as is alsothe State Lunatic Asylum, where are exhibited a fewmoss-backed trolley-kickers with real Louis Quarorzeworm holes distinctly visible. BROOKLYN STREET RAILROAD COMPANY. In 1862 the rapid growth of the West Side created thenecessity for additional car facilities, and in 1

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