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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
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case of almost all short lines, the general manager is Nov. 15, 1901.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 829 the practical head of all the operating departments. The superin-tendent, the general inspector, the master mechanic, the lineman, theauditor and the ticket accountant all report directly to him, and hoin turn reports lo the executive committee. In this manner thegeneral manager is kept in close touch with the details of each ofthe departments of the road. During the past year ending June 30.1900, the road carried nearly 200,000 passengers, but due to the Pan- use this car. I would add that this method of reversing the reartruck has proved with us entirely satisfactory. One of the illustrations shows what is known as the SearchlightCar, a fiat car upon which is mounted a General Electric motor-generator set together with controlling rheostats and instrumentsand a 24-inch standard Navy projector fitted with the ordinary cir-cular Ijeam Ims and a di\crgertce lens for widening the ray. This
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l\i, K-KVERSED MA.XIMMM TRACTION TRUCK. American Exposition this numjer has been very greatly exceededthis year, and in three months and a half we have carried over 600,000passengers. These passengers, it must be remembered, are all longhaul passengers, as passengers entering upon our cars at one endare carried through to the other, stop-over privileges not beingcounted as fares. In order to prepare for this we added materiallyto our equipment, but the full capacity of the line has been taxednrore than once during the current season, as practically all thetraffic is between 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. We have car-ried between those hours over 14,000 passengers in asingle day. Rolling Stock. It seems but natural that a road so unique in itsposition and operation should have many special de-vices for its operation. The accompanying photographsshow some of the cars on this road. The derrick car shown in the illustration, was de-signed and built for the construction of the wall; re-ferred to. It

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