The street railway review (1891) (14760658345)

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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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rg, where are also located theimmense plant of the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-tacturing Company, and the factory of the Fuel Gas &Manufacturing Company, a concentration of the vast West-inghouse interests, is effected at practically one point,within a half hours ride of Pittsburg, for the UnionSwitch & Signal Companys works at Swissvale, and theWestinghouse Air Brake Companys large shops atWilmerding, are also near by. It is estimated that thenew buildings alone will have cost $400,000 when com-pleted the coming November. Andrew Radel has been elected president of theBridgeport, Conn., Traction Company. As a practicalstreet railway man Mr. Radel has few equals or supe-riors. His reputation is founded on his management ofthe Newark & South Orange Railway of which he prac-tically took charge when 16 years old. His fatherbought the road, at sheriffs sale for $35,000, and sold itfor $1,500,000. after 15 years of his sons management. (^fetlf^odM^S^ylcW 371 U^Ht (^/^ilwAX5
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Under the Greig system of light railways the cost is$5,000 a mile outside of England, while in the lattercountry the cost is increased to $7,500 to $10,000 a mile,on account of preliminary Parliamentary expenses andincreased cost of right of way. In South Africa, India,Australia, China, the Straits Settlements, West Indies,Sandwich Islands and other places, the gage is 2 feet to2 feet 6 inches, the locomotives weighing 7 or 8 tons andcan carry safely a load of 80 tons or so at a speed of 10miles an hour. A light railway of still narrower gage toconnect farms with a main line of light railway can bebuilt for $1,000 a mile and might prove of great benefitto farmers if there was plenty of produce to be carried.The illustrations show Greig & Beadons patent lightrailway locomotive, Greigs patent light railway and roll-ing stock and a 2-foot gage line at Ackworth colliery,Northumberland. Steam, gas, electricity and oil can be used to operatethe engines. It is said that oil presents the