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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h of the Northern Pacificwere not entirely satisfactory to the officers of that road, and theactivity of the Electric company in its project for an interurbanelectric road to parallel this track, started negotiations between at the shops of the Everett Railway & Electric Co.. the other twobeing bought of the American Car Co. of St. Louis. The dimen-sions of these cars are as follows: Combination car, 43 ft. 8 in. overall; width 8 ft. 4 in.; passenger cars, 43 ft. over all; width 8 ft. 4 in. The passenger compartment of combination car seats 40 people,baggage room 9 ft. long. Passenger cars seat 48 people. The carshave cross seats, and windows with double sash, the upper sash be-ing stationary and the lower sash dropping down. The cars are heated with the Consolidated Car Heater Gos, eight-hc;itcr equipments and are mounted on Brill No. 27-E-l trucks with5-in. axle; 33-in. spoke wheels, made by St. Louis Car Co. are used.Westinghouse No. 68 motors, four to a car, inside hung; West-
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TUKSTI.K DVKK NORTHERN FACIKIC TUAIKS .\.NM .UNCTION o;.- TUK STKAM AND KMXTHIC I.INICS. President McChcsncy of the Everett Railway & Electric Co., amiPresident Mellcn of the Northern Pacific, with the result that theElectric company has negotiated a lease of the track from theNorthern Pacific for a term of years, undertaking to make con-nections with all Northern Pacific trains at Snohomish, and handleall its passenger, regular baggage and express business betweenEverett and Snohomish, Transcontinental passengers, baggage andexpress over the Ncrthcrn Pacific arc handled by the Electric com-pany between Everett and Snohomish, using Electric companypastcfi on all through tickets. An interurban waiting station has been built at the Everett endof the line, and large piatfornis have 1>cen put in at difTcrent stop-ping places between the two citiei, there being six stops along theline, serving principally farming and fishing districts with a pop-ulation of aly>ut two hundred peop

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