Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (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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freight car arc equipped with Christcusen airbrakes. The tracks, wherever laid with mils of light section, are beingrebuilt with heavier rails. .So far the Park Ave. line has been relaidwith 70-lh. T rails laid on 6xKxHo-in. while oak lies spaced 2 fl.from center to center. Tin- ballast used is crushed macadam ofwhich 8 in. has been placed under the tics. New .Atlas rail joiniband Ohio Brass Cos. protected bonds have been used in connec- 358 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIV, No. 6. lion with this work. Besides this part of the system, several othersections have been rebuilt in the same manner and further im-provements will l>c made this summer. Amongst these figuresprominently the rebuilding and double tracking of Main St. over The new management also intends to rebuild all crossings overwaterways on the Shelby intiTurban with substantial steel and con-crete structures and to raise the grade of this division at variouspoints above high water mark. This interurban brings the city of
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NEW PASSENGER C.\R. COOLING TOWER AND NEW OIL AND MOTOR HOUSE. INTERURBAN CAR. which all the three city and interurban lines jointly run. and whicliforms the main artery of travel in Mansfield. By means of three diamond turnouts and well arrangedschedules the travel is handled over this stretch of track, but itnecessitates the periodical accumulation of cars at the transferpoint, which being located in the middle of an 8 per cent grade,puts a very fluctuating demand on the power station. For thisreason the double tracking is considered the only way of remedyingthis trouble. FREIGHT AND EXPRESS CAR. VIEW ON PARK AVE. OLD CITY CAR. .Mansfield in toucii with the main line of the Hig Iour at Shelbyand the company derives a very handsome income from the travelbetween the two towns. The power station contains at present three engines, one 20 x 36-in. Allis-Corliss, one 16 and 36x42 tandem Cooper-Corliss and one20 and 40 X 48 Bates cross compound corliss engine. The gen-erator equipment cons

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