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Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (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
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ckade nearly all the cars of a system this bridge will saveits cost many times over during one emer.gency. OPENING FOR ELECTRIC RAILWAYS INCUBA. Wilfrid Skaife, discussing the Future Industrial Oppor-tunities in Cuba in the current number of the Engineer-ing Magazine says: No electric roads exist in Cuba atthe present time, but their immediate institution may belooked for. It is a singular fact that the travel on the vari-ous coasting steamers, on the vessels running up the smallrivers, on the railroads, and on the few busses that runto the suburbs of the larger towns, is very much larger thanone would expect from the apparent nature of the peopleand their means. The writer has constantly been surprisedat the over-crowding of these means of travel, and under-stands, on the best of authority, that the business is a vervpaying one indeed. The rates charged arc usually ex-orbitant, but the travel goes on even when the possibility ofbeing dynamited en route adds to the general discomfort.
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FIG. 2.—HOSE BRIDGE, NORTH CHICAGO STREET RAILROAD.—FIG. 3. in length and consist of tubing into the interior of which isdriven a wooden pole. The bridge proper is divided intotwo parts each 12 ft. long. The floor is of Js-\n. plank andthe rest of the bridge is constructed of light angle iron. Thetwo halves fit together and are held in place l)v two longpins. The bridge ready to be sent to the fire is shown in Fig. 2.As soon as it is taken to the scene of operation the twohalves are laid across the tracks and pinned together. The The writer traveled last winter on a train with pilot en-gines in front, an armored car behind, and amid the liveliestrumors of trouble on the road, and though there were fewfirst-class passengers, the other cars were filled with peopletraveling. God knows why! The extension and improve-ment of steam railways, opening up the country and givin,gbetter service, is sure to be a very paving business in thefuture, while there are a number of towns in which ele

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