The street railway review (1891) (14758240734)

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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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move, and inmounting thegrade of a little over 3 per cent., the wooden rollers inthe spider wore out very fast, not lasting over one hour.There were 8 rollers in the new spider. Snow gave thesame trouble as rain, in destroying the friction. The en-gines in the pits also developed an untoward tendency tocongeal, while the universal joints assumed a contraryinclination to get hot and frequently broke in two or threehours. Difficulty was also experienced in making the carwork on the curves. As far as developed the threadlessscrew-roller system was a signal failure. Finally thesheriff sold the power house for $22,000, and afterspending many thousands of dollars the attempt wasapparently abandoned. The machinery was then all re-moved. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the companycould not have prosecuted its experiments farther, assome of the difficulties it is believed could have beenworked out had money been obtainable for the purpose.We can not, however, recede from our position that the
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JlDSON SYSTEM — INTERIOR \IE\V OF WASHINGTON, D. C, PLANT. (NOW AliANDONED.) cable .system which costs no more to install, and less tooperate, precludes the possibility of competition from thesystem above described, In the early part of 1891 the company seem to havelost faith in their system, and turned their attention tocompressed air carried in storage tanks on each car.The result of this in the recent -test at Pullman hasalready been mentioned. The gentlemen who put their faith and money in thedevelopment of what they believed to be a great advancein street railway traction are deserving of much creditfor the persevering efforts put forth in their endeavor towork out a difficult problem. Had they succeeded, theirreward would have been proportionate to their success,and the world would have hailed the new candidate fortraction power with cheers. Having demonstrated a failure, the streetrailways are, with-out expense, thesharers of theircosth experience,and to that extentindebted t