DOCSLIB.ORG

The Street Railway Journal

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

b THE Street Railway Journal. • INDEX TO VOLUME XXII. July to December, 1903. McGraw Publishing Co., 114 Liberty Street, New York. 80953 INDEX TO VOLUME XXII. (Abbreviations ' Illustrated, c Correspondence.) A Offic'ers. £rid 'EJeciitiv'e Commitee <..!.'*... *284 Brakes, Air: in Detroit 929, 1034 .. 541 Discussion at Williamsport 811 cSa~ratoga "Convention, Excursion's' r Acceleration: on High-Speed Railways — Exhibitors, .. .404/ *542 New Christensen Sales Agents 46 — v { [Armstrong] 27 S- c — Proceedings? c" I . c cx-l--- i 448,486 Storage, St. Louis 1073 *122 t Test .'.« c ComnseEtc or..'..: L',., r i 409, 4(U Electric (Price, Darling) *587 65 Union Traction Company, Indiana.... ' *981 < Programme ,'.£1.2, '239 —Emergency, Motors as [Gough] r c also Speeds.) c (See e .<. — *18 . < Track, e c Cq.fiyiF.ents on v .c'. t'. c 279 —Emergency used in San Francisco. Accident: Boston & Worcester Railway In- c S'dggosf'ions .<\fe . .. c ." 609 Momentum 399 vestigation 215 Vice-President's 'Address .'»(-..« 449 Pneumatic Slipper (Estler Brothers) . .*173, 24a Brooklyn Elevated 958 Ammeter, Graphical Recording *808 ——Test of the Steiner Distance 395 Responsibility of Barents... 220 to Children, Anniston, Ala., Convertible Cars for *269 Braking: Emergency Stops 905, 1016 Claims, from Burning Trolley Wire, Appleyard Syndicate: Double-Track Curves [Johnson] c807, cl016 Kansas City 44 for Single-Track Roads M88 [Richards] c951 Department Methods in Brooklyn System of Interurban Railways *146 Bridgeport Strike 109, 220 ; *654 [Folds] Armatures (see Motors, Electric). Brighton, England, Trucks at 1004 Maintenance and Champerty in Personal Atlanta, Ga., Semi-Convertible Cars *923 Brillium as Fijel 900 Injury Cases [Brennan] 525 Atlantic City, Destructive Hurricane in *699 British Institution of Civil Engineers, Meet- Open-Car Dangers 1044 & Suburban Railway, Cars for 861 ing of 43 Paris Underground, Details of *TT2 Auburn & Syracuse Electric Railway *636 British Westinghouse Company, Trafford Physical Examination from the Physi- Auckland, N. Z., Electric Railway System of *606 Park Works 5ai) cian's Standpoint [Moorehead] 743 Sunday Operation of Cars in 949 Brooklyn Bridge: Loops 929 Comments on 720 Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railway, News- Moving Platform proposed for Connec- 744 Reports [Dibbs] paper Train 929 tions 676, 959 Comments on 720 Repair Shops of 457, *576 New Traffic Plan tried 716 Responsibility for c457 Train Cables on 805 Terminal Station Plans, of Directors 575 Automobiles, Registration of 249 45, 66, 276, 593, 753, 790, 958 (See also Employees.) Automotoneer Tests, Madison, Wis 1021 Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. .Annual Report *500 Accountants' Association, New President Comments on 1007 of 591 Officers and Executive Committee *285 Axles (see Wheels). Claim Department Methods [Folds] *654 Saratoga Convention, President's Ad- Contemplated Improvements 1005 dress 452 B Elevated Railroad Accident 958 Proceedings 452, 503 Badger, J. S., Biography 1S8 Employees', Electrical Course for 825 Programme 208, 280, 287 Baker, Alfred, New Appointment of 406 Fenders (Eclipse) 1003 Report of Secretary and Treasurer 454 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, New Electric Merit System adopted for 753 Work of [Calderwood] 658 Locomotives for *262 New Cars for 1039 Census Statistics and Standard Form of Baltimore, Repair Shop Practice in [Adams]. *465 New Club House, Opening of 73, *169 [Steuart] 526 — United States Mail Cars in T23 New Transfer Scheme 1002 Accounting: on Camden & Suburban Rail- Battle Creek, Mich.: Michigan & Indiana Power Station at Fifty-Second Street, way *1052 Traction Company, System of 867 damaged by Fire 673 *610 Denver System of Reports Bearings, Spiral (St. Louis Car Company). 173 Street Railway Outing 593 Freight and Express Accounts [Fullerton] *459 Beeler, J. A., Biographical Sketch 793 Brussels Tramway Company, New Power Sta- York Queens County Railway, New & Beetem, J. R., Biographical SketcTi 960 tion 187, *640 Report Blanks *257 Berlin, Fenders in [Fox] *236 Buffalo: Cars, Semi-Convertible, for *860 Standard Form of Report; adopted at Berlin-Zossen High-Speed Tests, Comments Cars, Trailer, for *893 Portland 221 on 635, 669, 716, 721, 795, 822, 1051 Buffalo, Dunkirk & Western Railway Exten- Report of Committee on 456 Review of *949 sion 1102 —Standard System of, in Great Britain.... 144 Birkenhead Corporation Tramways, Annual Progress on 738 [Dalrymple] 17S Report of 869 —Standard Interurban Track Construction. *S0o \dvertising for Traffic: (see Traffic, Adver- Birmingham Railway Light & Power Com- tising for.) pany, Traffic and Improvements on 977 Africa: Long, Narrow-Gage Railway for Block Signals: Despatchers Duties, and c Southwestern 59S Signals [Hart] 707 Cable Bracket Frame for Feeder Conduits Air Brake (see Brakes, Air). on Double-Track Roads [Hart] 1064 (Gest) *70 Air Compressor for Repair Shops, Automatic Contract for New York Interborough Cable Railway changed to Electric Railway Starter for St. Louis Transit Company. 94 Railway (U. S. & S.) 599 in St. Lcuis *978 for Stations, Discussion at Williamsport. 811 on Interurban Roads 961 Calais, France, Street Railways in 925 (Westinghouse) 382 Systems 634 California, Decision on Franchise Taxation Albany: New Cars for *621 American Automatic *667 in 109 & Hudson Railway, Third-Rail System of. 316 (Pneumatic) *1095 (See also Los Angeles, San Francisco.) United Traction Company, System of.. *296 on Tamaqua & Lansford Single-Track Cambridge, Ohio, Combination Cars *923 Allgemeine Electricitats Gesellschaft, Annual Road *378 Camden, Gloucester & Woodbury, Closed Report of 1034 Three-Wire Treble-Guard (Marks) .. 104 Cars , *1094 Alternators (Dick, Kerr & Company) *987 Uni *394 Camden & Suburban Railway Company: American Blower Company's New Office (See also Despatching.) Methods of Handling Employees on.. *1010 Building 139 Boiler Tube Cleaner (Weinland) *70 Operating Records and Storeroom Ac- America and Great Britain, Tramway Condi- Bolton, Eng., New Type of Car for *645 counting *1052 tions compared [Spencer] 177 Boosters, Discussion at Williamsport 781 Repair-Shop Practice *1080 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Boosting to 1700 volts in St. Louis 41 System of *964 Meeting of 676 Boston: East Boston Tunnel, Accident in... 44 Ventilating Motors on *124 Philadelphia Branch Meeting 928 Progress of 44 Canal: Electric Haulage Experiments on American Railways Company, Annual Report Route of 75 Erie *891 of 630 Elevated Railway Company: Annual Re- Electric Haulage on Miami & Erie Canal 827 American Railway Mechanical and Electrical port 1040 [Ricker] *830 Association: Executive Committee Legal Department for Employees 603 Cape Town: Camp Bay Railway Company, Meeting 1031 Reduction of Noise on Ill Report of 760 Comments on 1009 New Car Regulations in 711 Car Cleaning, Discussion at Williamsport 814 Membership 432 West End Railway Company's Annual Car Construction: Care and Maintenance of New President *500 Report 1004 Car Bodies [Baker] 458 Officers and Executive Committee *286 Boston & Worcester Railway, Accident In- Comments on 411 Saratoga Convention, President's Address 431 vestigation 215 Discussion of 432 —- Proceedings 431, 491, 501 Opening of 74 Design of Covert Convertible Car *700 American Street Railway Association: New Brake-Shoes: Discussion on 1101 c—Framing of 30-ft. 8-in. Semi-Convertible President .*. *5Q0 Non-Chilled (St, Louis) ,„ *1033 (Brill) *954. ) INDEX. iii Hygienic, in St. Louis 583 -—-Paden City, W. Va. (Convertible) *810 —& Southwestern Traction Company, Lim- Improvements in Interurban Cars, Mil- Peru (Semi-Convertible) *588 ited Service on 860 waukee *42G, 570 Pittsburg (Closed) *1067 rvew Officers 599 Sleeping Car, Plans of (Holland) *240 Philadelphia (Semi-Convertible) */l Storing Cars in the Open 1072 Platform Support for Four-Motor Equip- Portland, Maine (Semi-Convertible) *779 Three-Cent Fares in.. 139, 590, 715, 901, 928, 1040 ments [Patterson] c*806 Rockford, 111. (Combination) *991 1101 Reinforced Sills cl02 -—Seattle (Combination) *±Uj Touring Cars in 697 Steel Channel Bottom for City Cars (St. Sleeping 145, *240 Traffic Conditions, Conference on 1002 Louis) *70 Springfield, 111. (Convertible) *9H2 Plans 1071 Trailers 962 St. Louis (Closed) 893 Transfers, Abuse of J39 Use of Scrim on Panels 80 (Observation) *227 Coal Hauling on Denver & Northwestern Wiring, Underwriters' Recommendations. 1066 — (Private) *780 Railway *164 Car Hoists used in St. Louis Repair Shops. *875 Standard in Fourteen Cities *<i47 Coin-Counting Machine (National) 621 Car Houses: Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Rail- Tamaqua (Open) *700 Colorado Electric Light, Power & Railway way *576 Toledo (Closed) *1066 Association, Meeting of 275, 899 Cleveland, destroyed by Fire 929, *953 (Semi-Convertible) *39 Colorado Springs & Cripple 'Creek District Colorado Springs & Interurban Railway. *6d0 Vincennes, Ind. (Convertible) *43U Railway Operation of Electric Cars.... *117 for Eight Cars, Worcester & Holden Rail- Waterloo, la. (Convertible) *3S Colorado Springs & Interurban Railway; way *581 Card Index in Electric Railway Work 203 Special Track Work *803 Lansingburg, N. Y., Plan of *l9S Census Report: Central Electric Light and System of *64B Newark, Ohio *lo2 Power Stations '. 1003 Columbus, Ga., Water Power Development at. 275 New York & Queens County Railway, ——Street Railway Industry 63 Columbus, Ohio: Buckeye Lake & Newark Woodside, L. I '. *253 Chance, G. W., Biographical Sketch *141 Traction Company, System of *146 Sault Ste Marie *6 Change Carrier (Etter) *41 Combination
Recommended publications
  • Inventory and Analysis of the South Boston Parking Freeze

    Inventory and Analysis of the South Boston Parking Freeze

    Inventory and Analysis of the South Boston Parking Freeze An Interdisciplinary Qualifying Project Submitted to the faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science Submitted By: Roland Cormier Jie Liang Robert Viall David Zuniga Sponsoring Agency: City of Boston Environment Department Air Pollution Control Commission Submitted To: Project Advisors: Kevin Clements Chrysanthe Demetry Project Liaisons: Bryan Glascock Carl Spector Boston Environment Department One City Hall Plaza Boston, MA 02201 Date: April 27, 2007 Abstract The goal of this project was to evaluate the existing status of the South Boston parking freeze and to recommend changes in policy and procedure that will enhance the ability of the Boston Air Pollution Control Commission (BAPCC) to manage the parking freeze and improve its effectiveness in limiting air pollution from automobiles. The team provided an updated inventory of the parking freeze, an analysis of the effectiveness of the off-peak parking policy, and an information flow plan for the permit application process. ii Acknowledgements The team would like to thank all those who have helped us throughout the past seven weeks in completing this project. Special thanks to our sponsor Mr. Carl Spector of the Boston Air Pollution Control Commission for providing the team with his insight and guidance. The team would also like to thank Mr. Bryan Glascock, director of the Boston Environment Department for giving the team the opportunity to work on this project. Thanks to Ms. Carolyn Bennett of the Boston Redevelopment Authority for providing the team with her GIS expertise as well as the GIS map layers needed to complete the project.
  • The Chicago City Manual, and Verified by John W

    The Chicago City Manual, and Verified by John W

    CHICAGO cnT MANUAL 1913 CHICAGO BUREAU OF STATISTICS AND MUNICIPAL UBRARY ! [HJ—MUXt mfHi»rHB^' iimiwmimiimmimaamHmiiamatmasaaaa THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY I is re- The person charging this material or before the sponsible for its return on Latest Date stamped below. underlining of books Theft, mutilation, and disciplinary action and may are reasons for from the University. result in dismissal University of Illinois Library L161-O-1096 OFFICIAL CITY HALL DIRECTORY Location of the Several City Departments, Bureaus and Offices in the New City Hall FIRST FLOOR The Water Department The Fire Department Superintendent, Bureau of Water The Fire Marshal Assessor, Bureau of Water Hearing Room, Board of Local Improve^ Meter Division, Bureau of Water ments Shut-Off Division, Bureau of Water Chief Clerk, Bureau of Water Department of the City Clerk Office of the City Clerk Office of the Cashier of Department Cashier, Bureau of Water Office of the Chief Clerk to the City Clerk Water Inspector, Bureau of Water Department of the City Collector Permits, Bureau of Water Office of the City Collector Plats, Bureau of Water Office of the Deputy City Collector The Chief Clerk, Assistants and Clerical Force The Saloon Licensing Division SECOND FLOOR The Legislative Department The Board's Law Department The City Council Chamber Board Members' Assembly Room The City Council Committee Rooms The Rotunda Department of the City Treasurer Office of the City Treasurer The Chief Clerk and Assistants The Assistant City Treasurer The Cashier and Pay Roll Clerks
  • Pullman Company Archives

    Pullman Company Archives

    PULLMAN COMPANY ARCHIVES THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY Guide to the Pullman Company Archives by Martha T. Briggs and Cynthia H. Peters Funded in Part by a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Chicago The Newberry Library 1995 ISBN 0-911028-55-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................. v - xii ... Access Statement ............................................ xiii Record Group Structure ..................................... xiv-xx Record Group No . 01 President .............................................. 1 - 42 Subgroup No . 01 Office of the President ...................... 2 - 34 Subgroup No . 02 Office of the Vice President .................. 35 - 39 Subgroup No . 03 Personal Papers ......................... 40 - 42 Record Group No . 02 Secretary and Treasurer ........................................ 43 - 153 Subgroup No . 01 Office of the Secretary and Treasurer ............ 44 - 151 Subgroup No . 02 Personal Papers ........................... 152 - 153 Record Group No . 03 Office of Finance and Accounts .................................. 155 - 197 Subgroup No . 01 Vice President and Comptroller . 156 - 158 Subgroup No. 02 General Auditor ............................ 159 - 191 Subgroup No . 03 Auditor of Disbursements ........................ 192 Subgroup No . 04 Auditor of Receipts ......................... 193 - 197 Record Group No . 04 Law Department ........................................ 199 - 237 Subgroup No . 01 General Counsel .......................... 200 - 225 Subgroup No . 02
  • 2018 -2017 BSRA Annual Report Final

    2018 -2017 BSRA Annual Report Final

    Boston Street Railway Association, Inc. Fifty-Ninth Annual Report 2018 Our 2018 fiscal year, running from October 1, 2017 A This Time in History feature covered the Clarendon Hill through September 30, 2018, has been quite successful, Carhouse fire in 1918. both financially and in the many accomplishments that we The July-August issue had a summary of current MBTA were able to achieve. Efforts in our Publications happenings. The issue also showed a glimpse of the new Department, our Type 5 No. 5706 streetcar restoration Type 9 Green Line car, the new Red Line car mockup, program, improved RollSign content, and another great and wire cars on the MBTA. A This Time in History year of outstanding entertainment programs highlighted segment presented Wire Cars, Watertown, and Women the year. on the El. Also of major importance was our financial performance. In the past year your Editor has made an effort to include We saw a surplus of income received over expenses, more detailed current news events articles with helped by significant donations to the 5706 Fund and the supplementary images throughout the publication. We General Fund. Our Treasurer's annual report presents received many photo submissions but it was impossible these details. Your strong support has made great results to include them all, even if their quality merited possible. publication. The Editor is grateful for your submissions Our officers have presented reports, which follow, in their and thanks everyone who contributed. areas of responsibility. Please take the time to review The RollSign would not be possible without the hard work them.
  • BSRA 2016-02-06 Entertainment Report

    BSRA 2016-02-06 Entertainment Report

    BSRA Entertainment Report for February 6, 2016 LONG FORM (for historical record) Entertainment Report for February 6, 2016 February 6, 2016. RollSign Archives. The RollSign Magazine archives hold over a century of unique Boston transit images, including many rarely seen views from RollSign Magazine through the years. Editor Nick Tomkavage presented a collection of images that have never been published, or were published decades ago. He started the presentation of RollSign archives with a note about photo crediting, as he made every effort to attribute photos to the proper people, and asked the audience for corrections in case of the proper attribution not being found in the archives The show began with a photo of Commonwealth Avenue and Chestnut Hill Avenue, with a 3 car train of Center Entrance cars #_ posing for a photo. These cars arrived in 1919 -1920 and were retired in 1946 - 1947; the photo is from after the fender guards were gone, approximately a year after arrival, but before 1926, when window guards were removed to keep children from using them as handholds to steal free rides. The original line from Lake Street into the subway went from Lake Street to Cleveland Circle to Washington Street to Huntington Avenue and then into the subway. The Commonwealth Avenue line was laid down in 1900, and as an early example of transit-oriented development, this was the driving element for the large scale development seen on Commonwealth Avenue today. These cars (#_?) were posed in a similar position as in the next photo, which showed them running on a Commonwealth short turn at Chestnut Hill Avenue in the 1930s -- Lake Street could not handle all of the Commonwealth Avenue service by itself, so the short-turn cars ran empty from Chestnut Hill Avenue to Reservoir to turn The next photo was in 1970 on Chestnut Hill Avenue of the Center Entrance Cars' replacement, the Wartime PCCs (#_ shown).
  • 2021 Historical Calendar Cta 2021 January

    2021 Historical Calendar Cta 2021 January

    cta 2021 Historical Calendar cta 2021 January Built in 1936 by the St. Louis Car Company, Chicago Surface Lines trolley bus #184 heads eastbound via Diversey to Western. Trolley bus service was first introduced in Chicago on the #76 Diversey route in 1930. Other trolley bus routes were soon added, some as extensions of existing streetcar lines and later as conversions of streetcar lines to trolley bus service. Trolley bus extensions to existing streetcar lines were an economical way to serve new neighborhoods that were established in outlying parts of the city. Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat ABCDEFG: December 2020 February 2021 B C CTA Operations S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Division 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 Group Days Off 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 t Alternate day off if 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 you work on this day 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 l Central offices closed 27 28 29 30 31 28 1 New Year’s Day 2 C D E F G A B 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 B C D E F G A 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A B C D E F G Martin Luther King, 17 18 Jr. Day 19 20 21 22 23 G A B C D E F 24 F 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 cta 2021 February Car #1643 was an example of Chicago’s first electric streetcars.
  • Improving South Boston Rail Corridor Katerina Boukin

    Improving South Boston Rail Corridor Katerina Boukin

    Improving South Boston Rail Corridor by Katerina Boukin B.Sc, Civil and Environmental Engineering Technion Institute of Technology ,2015 Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY May 2020 ○c Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2020. All rights reserved. Author........................................................................... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering May 19, 2020 Certified by. Andrew J. Whittle Professor Thesis Supervisor Certified by. Frederick P. Salvucci Research Associate, Center for Transportation and Logistics Thesis Supervisor Accepted by...................................................................... Colette L. Heald, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair, Graduate Program Committee 2 Improving South Boston Rail Corridor by Katerina Boukin Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on May 19, 2020, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering Abstract . Rail services in older cities such as Boston include an urban metro system with a mixture of light rail/trolley and heavy rail lines, and a network of commuter services emanating from termini in the city center. These legacy systems have grown incrementally over the past century and are struggling to serve the economic and population growth
  • BSRA 2016-03-05 Entertainment Report Copy

    BSRA 2016-03-05 Entertainment Report Copy

    BSRA Entertainment Report for March 5, 2016 LONG FORM (for historical record) Entertainment Report for March 5, 2016 March 5, 2016. The T, Then and Now. Henry Marrec made silent color Super 8 mm movies of MBTA operations in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and in the Blizzards of 1978. Now on two DVDs produced in August 2010 with narration that he added himself, he showed this footage, along with footage taken in High Definition Video with sound in 2008 and 2010, and some bonus still photos of the original Red Line cars, and some bonus silent movie footage of New York City elevated operations. Part 1 of the first DVD started in 1967 with narrated Super 8 mm footage featuring MBTA Green PCCs running on the elevated structure from Lechmere through North Station, by Boston Garden. A fair amount of this footage and some of the following segments presented the view looking out the back window, which is something that is no longer possible (barring a rear cab ride or an errant open cab door) ever since the PCCs disappeared except on the Mattapan High-Speed Line. (For that matter, this is no longer possible even on buses ever since the last GM New Look -- or "Fishbowl" -- buses disappeared.) The next footage was Beacon Street outbound to Cleveland Circle. Footage included All-Electrics and Wartime PCCs at Cleveland Circle/ Reservoir in its old configuration. After a brief jaunt on Commonwealth Avenue, the next stop was Watertown Yard, showing several work equipment units that are now long gone, chiefly dump and crane cars, as well as PCCs turning around for revenue service, PCCs were still evident in Watertown Yard through August 1969, and this footage showed some of the last revenue service out of Watertown.
  • Massachusetts House of Representatives: Upgrading Greater Boston MBTA Rail System St

    Massachusetts House of Representatives: Upgrading Greater Boston MBTA Rail System St

    Massachusetts House of Representatives: Upgrading Greater Boston MBTA Rail System St. John’s Preparatory School - Danvers, Massachusetts - December 2020 Letter from the Chairs Dear Delegates, My name is Brett Butler. I am a Senior at St. John’s Prep, and I will serve as your chair for the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Railway Service. I have been involved in Model UN at the Prep for 5 years. Outside of Model UN, I am on the SJP Tennis Team, an Eagles’ Wings Leader, a member of Spire Society, a member of the National Honor Society, and a member of the Chinese National Honor Society. The topic of Railway Service has really fascinated me, since my father is an executive in the FTA (Federal Transit Administration), which is part of the DOT (Department of Transportation), and he has been my inspiration for my research into this topic. Also, I am a frequent passenger on the “T” and Commuter Rail (as well as commuter rail and subway services in many different cities such as Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Montreal). Thus, I recommend that you read through this paper as well as to do your own research on the frequency, extension, and public trust in the Greater Boston Railway Service. Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns! I will be happy to assist you, and I look forward to meeting you in December! Thank you, Brett Butler ‘21 ([email protected]) Chair, Massachusetts House of Representatives on Railway Service, SJPMUN XV Dear Delegates, My name is Brendan O’Friel.
  • The Street Railway Journal

    The Street Railway Journal

    Vul. VIII. MEW YORK $ CHICAGO, MARCH Mo. 3. Cincinnati Street Railways. page presents a very good idea of the exterior of the station. Fig. 2 on the following page is a view of Our readers are already familiar in a general way the interior of the engine and generator room, while with the transit facilities of this progressive city. All the Fig. 3 shows to the reader the appearance of the boiler leading systems of traction are employed, including elec- room. tric traction by the single and double trolley, with motors The engine room of the power station is 200 x 60 ft.; boiler room 200x40 ft. The steam equipment consists of three 1,000 h. p. Babcock tfc Wilcox boilers and four en- gines. Three of the engines are of the Corliss type, man- ufactured by Lane & Bodley, of Cincinnati, two of them have 28 x 60 ins. cylinders and one 24x60 ins. The fourth is a 100 h. p. engine manufactured by the Buckeye Engine Co., Salem, O. The present electric equipment consists of sixteen 80 h. p. T.-H. generators, of which thirteen are in daily service, to operate the three lines, known as the East End, Norwood and Avondale. The fly- wheels are twenty-two feet in diameter, with fifty inch faces, and the three belts, furnished by the Bradford Belting J Co. of Cincinnati, O., are forty-eight inches wide, and lead to six foot receiving pulleys. This power house was the scene of the recent accident when one of the heavy fly- FiG. I —EXTERIOR OF HUNT STREET STATION— CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY CO.
  • HISTORICAL CALENDAR Added Historical Notes Follow Calendar

    HISTORICAL CALENDAR Added Historical Notes Follow Calendar

    2020 HISTORICAL CALENDAR Added historical notes follow calendar Chicago Transit Authority JANUARY 2020 After a snow in December 1951, CTA streetcar #4231 is making its way down Halsted to its terminus at 79th Street. Built in 1948 by the Pullman Company in Chicago, car #4231 was part of a fleet of 600 Presidents Conference Committee (PCC) cars ordered by Chicago Surface Lines (CSL) just before its incorporation into the Chicago Transit Authority. At 48 feet, these were the longest streetcars used in any city. Their comfortable riding experience, along with their characteristic humming sound and color scheme, earned them being nicknamed “Green Hornets” after a well-known radio show of the time. These cars operated on Chicago streets until the end of streetcar service, June 21, 1958. Car #4391, the sole survivor, is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL. SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT ABCDEFG: December 2019 February 2020 C D E F CTA Operations S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Group Days Off 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 t Alternate day off if 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 you work on this day 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 l Central offices closed 1 New Year’s Day 2 3 4 F G A B C D E 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 E F G A B C D 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 D E F G A B C Martin Luther 19 20 King, Jr.
  • Orphan Asylum Building 5120 S

    Orphan Asylum Building 5120 S

    LANDMARK DESIGNATION REPORT Chicago Orphan Asylum Building 5120 S. King Dr. Preliminary Landmark recommendation approved by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, December 4, 2008 CITY OF CHICAGO Richard M. Daley, Mayor Department of Zoning and Land Use Planning Patricia A. Scudiero, Commissioner Cover illustrations Top: The Chicago Orphan Asylum Building. Left bottom: Detail of terra-cotta ornament. Right bottom: Horace Cayton, Jr., the director of the Parkway Community House, located in the building during the 1940s and early 1950s. The Commission on Chicago Landmarks, whose ten members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council, was established in 1968 by city ordinance. The Commission is responsible for recommend- ing to the City Council which individual buildings, sites, objects, or districts should be designated as Chicago Landmarks, which protects them by law. The landmark designation process begins with a staff study and a preliminary summary of information related to the potential designation criteria. The next step is a preliminary vote by the landmarks commission as to whether the proposed landmark is worthy of consideration. This vote not only initiates the formal designation process, but it places the review of city permits for the property under the jurisdiction of the Commission until a final landmark recommendation is acted on by the City Council. This Landmark Designation Report is subject to possible revision and amendment during the designation process. Only language contained within the designation ordinance adopted by the City Council should be regarded as final. CHICAGO ORPHAN ASYLUM BUILDING (FORMERLY PARKWAY COMMUNITY HOUSE; NOW CHICAGO BAPTIST INSTITUTE) 5120 S. KING DR. BUILT: 1898-1899 ARCHITECTS:SHEPLEY, RUTAN, & COOLIDGE The Chicago Orphan Asylum Building (now the Chicago Baptist Institute) exemplifies multiple significant aspects of Chicago cultural and institutional history.