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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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Y TOWER CAR. The trolley car. shown in the illustration, was buill by theJ. G. Brill Company for the Fairmount Park TransportationCompany. Philadelphia. The road is peculiar in that there areno roadways along its route so that the usual trolley wagonwas out of the quostion both for construction and repair work.The car body is mounted on a four-wheel No. 7 Urill truck with33-in. wheels and two AV. P. iiO motors. The wheel case is 6-ft.and the gage Is 5 ft. 2% in. The body of the car is 12 ft. overthe end sill.-; anil 6 ft. 10 in. wide. The sills are about 9 in. deepand are framed so as to give a strong support to the angle ironbuffers. The sides are IS in. high by 1% in. thick. They arestrajipcd and made verj- solid. A short length in the centre ofthe side is made to drop. At one end there is n trolley standon a separate frame which is braced from the tower. This standcarries four incandescent lights. In the same circuit thereis a movalile liglit with long leads, so that it can be used
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TROLLEY TOWER CAR. at the extreme end of the platform or at any other pointabout the car where a light may be needed. In each corner ofthe body there are tool boxes built in. The platform has a 9-ft.reach, and Is placed in the middle of the car. The wide wheelbase made this easily possible. The reach of the platform hadto be great enough to cover the opposite track. There are brakewheels at both ends of the car, two controllers, two gongs, andthe usual saad boxes are provided. The total weight completeIs 15,000 lbs. The underground railways of London have been brought to theattention of American readers lately by the large orders ior elec-trical appliances placed in the United States. Although the cost ofdriving the tunnels is enormous the traffic in London is greatenough to justify the expense. When compared with the surfacelines the length of the tunnels is very short, with the funkier dis-advantage that each short line is owned by a separate company.The pioneer of these railways is

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