The street railway review (1891) (14760772882)

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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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, and the new-Short Gearless mav fairly be said to liave already enteredupon a long and useful future. are in I^incoln, Nebraska, and is olhcered with Cj. W.Enslow. prisident: (j. W. Hartman, secrttar\ andtreasurer, and F. J. Pearson as general manager andelectrician. The comiiaiu have the contract for furnishing all theecjuipment, and buildingthe power car houses, andfurnishing and installingthe entire plant for theelectric road at Heatriee,Nebraska. Thev are also westernagents for the Baxter Mf)-tor Co., of Baltimore, andwill use that motor inequipping the Beatriceroad, in which no expensewill be spared in an\respect to make it tirstclass in e\erN- wa\. Contracts for this roadare now being let. and llu-work will be crowded tothe utmost, and will, w henfinished, be a source of great pride to the enterprisingcitizens of that energetic young city of the west. Thereis a splendid held throughout the west for constructionwork, and one which will continue to expand rapidly fora lono- time.
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in nulHLE GEARLIiSS MOTORS. Trans-Missouri Electrical Construction and HeatingCompany. THE live construction companies are by no means allconfined to the territory east of the Mississippiriver, and no small amount of the new work is be-ing taken and installed by western corporations. A new but decidedly progressive institution of this kindis the Trans-Missouri Electrical Construction and Heating-Company, which is incorporated under the laws of theState of Nebraska, for the purpose of contracting for theentire equipment and construction of railway, lighting,heating, and power plants. The companys headquarters TiiK Rapid Transit City Railway Co.. of Newark,N. J.\ erv generously donated to the hospitals of that fity theentire receipts of all its lines on Easter Sunday. An-nouncement had been made in the papers of its intentionto do so. and the cars w ere crowded throughout the da)-,and man\- passengers paid their fare with coins whichwere a <jrreat deal larger than a nickel. Detroit.