Identifier: streetrailwayrev01amer (find matches)
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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The buildings are of brick, and present a very attractive appearance from without, and money has not been spared to make tliem asconvenient as possible in every respect. It certainly isone of the model plants of the country. The change from mules to electricity is scarcely lessmarked than the comparison of the old bob-tail cars withthe new equipment, which has been furnished by the Gil-bert Car Co. of Troy, N. Y. The new cars are fifteenin number, of the double vestibule stvle, and are models wheels from the New York Car Wheel Works of Buf-falo. The truck is of the Gilbert make, and has a pecul-iar arrangement of the springs which secures an extremelyeasy riding car, entirely free from all rocking, althoughthe wheel base is but seven feel. The motor frame sus-pends directly from the axles. A second frame rests onfour half-eliptical springs. At each of the four cornersof this frame is placed one eliptical spring, which in turn
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of beauty and convenience : twenty-eight feet over all,weigh eight tons complete, and seat thirty passengers.The motors are the Rae type, from the Detroit ElectricalWorks, each car being driven b)- one 30-horse powermoter placed between the car axles and securely boxedagainst dust and water. The motor makes 900 revolu-ions per minute to secure a speed of 12 miles per hour.The wheels are thirty inches in diameter, weighing 350lbs. each, and are what are known as the machined carries the car box. The longitudinal distance betweenthe centres of these last named springs is 11 feet 6 inches.The interior of the car is very elaborately finished inbrass and hard woods. The windows, six on each side,are 30 inches square, furnished with spring roller cur-tains, while at night the car is brilliantly illuminated bytwo chandeliers, which contain two lamps each, made b)Josephine D. Smith. They are fitted with glass shadesand suspende

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