Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (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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est the day he wasshot, expressed great enjoyment of his trip over the Gorge Roadin the private car, and we feel grateful that he should have takenthis his last pleasure trip in this car. It will be noticed that therear truck, as in the trail car shown, is a standard maximum tractiontruck reversed so that the pony wheel will always be the trailer.This was done for .safety of operation on the high speed servicebetween Buffalo and Niagara Falls, on which line wc occasionally is used for illuminating the Whirlpool Rapids, and many readers oftiie Review will remember pleasantly having witnessed this whenattending the recent convention of the American Institute of Elec-trical Engineers. One of the color slides is shown on the car atthe left of the picture. This car is coupled to one of the regularcars and taken down the line where an exhibition lasting probablyluilf an hour is given at the Whirlpool Rapids every evening. Theeffect of the searchlight on the seething waters is indescribable.
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SKAKlllI.IC.IIr CAR. The shadows are greatly heightened, thereby making the alreadyturbulent waters seem even more turbulent, and the coloring pro-cured by the use of gelatine slides calls forth many expressions ofadmiration and awe. which with the gratifying receipts, arc most en-couraging returns for the outlay and experimenting which thewriter made to make possible the illumination of the WhirlpoolRapids. In addition to the above, forty 2,000 candle power lamps 830 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XI, No. ii. with silvered reflectors are used to effect the general lighting ofthe Rapids. Since we have secured such ticket representation as enables us toticket the passscnger from Niagara Falls through the ThousandIslands to Montreal and points beyond, and also via Lake Georgeand the Hudson River to New York, we have found that the touristbusiness has increased to such an extent that a baggage car becamea necessity. Wc therefore constructed from an open car a biggage FRANCHISE TAXATION IN

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