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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s is transmitted on two alumininn cables of 230wires each, to the aluminujii factory of the Pittsbm-ghReduction Companx. The fourth turbine is rigidly connected to two 330-kilo-watt (General Electric generators and runs at 300 revolutionsper minute. The generators arc compound wound for rail-way service and are to be run in multiple. Since the com-pletion of the plant the company has supplied the NiagaraFalls & Lewiston Railroad, better known as the Gorge road,and the Lewiston & Youngstown Railway with power. Forthis latter service the booster (shown in our illustration) isused. The service it gives is good ; the voltage at Lewistonis 580 volts, and at Youngstown, 15 miles distant, about 507. The superintendent of the power company is F. G. Lott,who is also superintendent of the Buffalo-Niagara FallsElectric Light & Power Company, and the business head ofthe company is Arthur Schoellkopf, formerly president ofthe Niagara Falls & Suspension Bridge Street RailwayCompany.
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NIAGARA FALLS HYDRAULICf POWER AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY—INTERIOR OF POWER HOUSE. (^mcd.li\ailwWii\^^ ST. LOUIS OFFICE MENS ASSOCIATION. The secretaries, treasurers, auditors ami assisUuit oUi-cers of the various street railways in St. Louis, foriiieil alocal orjjauization on Deeember 30, and elected otticers.They will meet once in three months, and after a dinner dis-cuss (juestions of local interest, read papers and make theseoccasions the date for the clearing house work of settlementand exchange of tickets between the different roads. Thefirst meeting was a success and proved very enjoyable. CX. Duffy, secretary of the Citizens, was the originator ofthe iilea. WEST AND NORTH CHICAGO ANNUAL MEETING. The West Chicago Street Railroad held its annual meet-ing December 12. The Verkes board was elected. J. H.Parsons who has gone to Philadelphia, and \V. L. Elkins,retire from the lioard. Arrangements were announced forfloating of $10,000,000 consolidation bonds to retire the $-;,-000,0

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