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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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ugh failure of the far signal to work. The controlleris retained in the system employing semaphores. The Eureka system has been in use for more than a year on the1 aniaqua & Lansford Street Railway Cos. system at Lansford, Pa.,with such satisfactory results that all the blocks of the road, about20 in number, have been protected with it. •-•-• One man was killed in a collision on the Cincinnati, Dayton &Toledo Traction Cos. line November isth. Nliv. 20. 1903.1 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 931 New Open Cars for Rutland Street Railway Co. The accompanying illustration shows one of eight new open carsbuilt bv the Laconia Car Co. and recently delivered to the RutlandStreetRailway Co., of Rutland, Vt. The car bodies are 44 ft-long over all, 9 ft. 3;-< in. wide over the lower runnnig boards and12 ft., S/i in. high when mounted on trucks. The roofs are ofsteam-cartype, with full-length monitors extending over the dash- ^Each car is equipped with double steps running the full length
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KIFTKKN liliNCH C.^R. L.\CnXI.\ LAK C. of the car, the lower step being arranged to fold, and each ha> droplife guards and safety chains. The grab handles are ofash fitted10 bronze sockets and extending from the eaves to the ends of theseats, all trimmings being of solid bronze, highly polished. Thegeneral finish of the cars is of white ash, the ceilings being of whitebirch and the seats of paneled white maple. Hiere are 15 seats ineach car, 11 being reversible and 4 having stationary backs. Ihecurtains of waterproof duck extend to the floor. These cars are also equipped with Providence fenders. Sterlingregisters operated by rods, De Witt sand boxes, Wheeler headlightsplaced on the ends of the roof, Christensen air brakes and Westing-house motors. The trucks are the Laconia high-speed trucks, with S-ft. wheel base, and with patentedswing bolsters and Laconia 33-i- donbk-platewheels. the Union Railway Co., of New York City; two to the ClevelandElectric Railway Co.; one each to Alban

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