1902 Artistic Tram Poles 3 Of 6 - Public domain portrait drawing

Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (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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p from observation and Study of the old worldsare taking on forms that will ultimately influence publicopinion to the extent of demanding greater attention to the arti-tielines possible, even in commonplace things such as streetlanterns, gates, lights, and railway poles. The influence of our great expositions is being felt, especially inpublic buildings, and when some one shall exhibit at such a placein connection with the general scheme, and in the most conspicuous must be -aid that the latter is awaj ahead .if the former, but thefeatures of some foreign types of railway are so advantageous 10the working out of ornamental line construction thai they will In-referred to here. I lie usual type of trolley pole or contact deviceused on top ..I the cars there, for example, i- quite different fromthat in the United State- because of the extensive use of doubledecked car- having roof seat- requiring the pole to be placed on one-ide of the car roof. Further than that, the use of a horizontal
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part of it. an example of the highest development pos ibli in Streelrailway construction, together with all other street feature-, thenwill there be an influence at work in the matter of our streel construction which no amount of other illustration will bring about. All this is from the standpoint of the artist, eng r, or philan-thropic citizen who look- at it with the eye- of ,, benefactor. Itwill usually be argued that the railway manager- are nol of thisI thinking, utile-- they -ee ultimate profit in thai course. Thatthere is a profit cannot be definitely proved, but it 1- generallyI that attention to the appearance of line- and equipment,tends to draw people out and increase traffic, tend- to mal swivelling trolley contact i- general and these feature- allow thewire 10 be placed SO far to one -ide of the center of tin- Hack that when two tracks are close together with center or side pole bracketarm-, these arm- can be verj shorl a- some of the designs show,and hence the artistic t