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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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sburg and to form a companyunder the Russian law with a capital of $50,000,000. The projectincludes extending the street railway lines very large and equip-ping them for electric propulsion. There are at present 85 milesof horse car lines in St. Petersburg, and Mr. Verner and Mr. H.Sellers McKee, of Pittsburg, propose to increase the trackage ofthe city to about 300 miles. Both of these gentlemen are well known in the electric railwayfield, having been connected with the electrical conversion of theroads in Rochester, N. Y., Buffalo, N. Y., Newark, N. J., Nor-folk, Va., Pittsburg, Pa., and a number of other prominent systems. A TROLLEY HOSPITAL. A new municipal hospital is to be built in Baltimore, Md., anda novel feature in connection with it will be a trolley annex. Thesite of the new hospital is adjacent to the lines of the United Rail-ways and Electric Co., and a short switch will carry the car to thehospital entrance. The plan is to have the hospital car always in readiness for a
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A MEXICAN OPEN CAR. between the posts are closed on one side, not only by an entranceguard but by wire nettings fixed in position. The length of thecar makes it necessary to cut the step, or running board, in twoat the center; the grab handles are of ash in bronze socket.?.With the ordinary allowance for space this car should be able toseat 72 passengers. The openings between the posts are all fittedwith spring roller curtains and, as the seats have round end seatpanels, the curtains come to the floor without difficulty, making aperfectly protected car in inclement weather. The interior is fittedwith electric lights. The car is used as a trailer, not being fittedwith motors. ANNUAL REPORT, UNION TRACTIONCOMPANY. The annual stockholders meeting of the Union Traction Co.,of Philadelphia, was held September i8th, at which the annual re-port of the company was presented. The old board of directorsand officers of the previous year were re-elected. President Par-sons report shows the total

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