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Identifier: streetrailwayrev07amer (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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are of cedar, 6 x 8 in. x 8ft., spaced 2 ft. between centers. The line is ballasted withbroken stone which is 6 in. deep under the ties. R. W. Oliver furnished the overhead work at a cost of$9,750. In the villages span work is used and in the coun-try side pole bracket work. The trolley wire is No. 00 andthere are nearly 24,000 ft. of No. 0000 stranded triplecovered feed wire starting from Lewiston and reachingnearly to Youngstown. All poles and fence posts arepainted olive green. No power plant was constructed by this company, powerbeing obtained from the plant of the Niagara Falls & PowerCompany, which is situated 7.17 miles distant from Lewis-ton. It is generated by one of the i,ooo-h. p. generatorssituated in the new power house at the foot of the cliff, ata voltage of 550 volts. This is raised to 750 volts by beingpassed through a booster, and is conveyed to Lewistonover a 500,000 circular mil stranded copper wire, triplecovered. This wire is strung on the poles of the Gorge
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SCENES ON THE LEWISTON & YOUNGSTOWN FRONTIER RAILWAY. Lewiston and runs up Center street to 5th street, thencenortherly through 5th street to the village limits, thencethrough private lands to 3rd street, Youngstown, thencethrough Church street to Main street and to the UnitedStates Military Reservation, at the mouth of the NiagaraRiver. There is also a branch in Lewiston from 5th streetthrough fJnondaga street to the New York Central freightstation and a branch in Youngstown to the docks. Theroad is 7J^ miles long in all. The country through which this road runs is extremelylevel and is in the heart of the Niagara fruit district, beinglargely devoted to the culture of apples, peaches and grapes. Railway, located in the Niagara Gorge, and thus broughtto Lewiston where it is connected with the trolley and feedwire above mentioned. The equipment consists of four, eight bench open motorcars and two closed combination baggage and passenger carsseating 16 people, made by the J. G. Bril

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