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English: «Residence of General Manager Jemison» (original caption)

Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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
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s continuedwell into 1886, and we are told that thereceipts during 1884 and 1885 did notaverage $30 per daj-. The receiptsfrom the present street railway systemof Birmingham now average nearly$1,200 per day. On October loth oflast year, the Birmingham Railway &Electric Company, controlling abouttwo-thirds of the mileage of these dif-crent rapid transit hnes. placed in oper-ralion the first electric car ever operatedin Birmingham. They have just com-pleted 15 miles of electric track, put-ting down new 4C)-pound steel rails,new ties, and in fact, building 15 milesof new track in the heart of the city. 238 The story of these lines and their passenger businessis surprising even to street railroad people. The census■ gi^ig Birmingham a population of a little over 30,000inhabitants; they cant understand how a city of this sizecan support so many miles of street railroads. Onceexplained it is very plain. The corporate limits of thecity of Birmingham are only about one and three-eighths
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THE ELECTRIC LINE has 15 miles of track laid with 40-lb. steel T and 58lb. girder rail. The T manufactured by the BellevilleSteel Company, and the Johnson Company supplied thegirder. The track is standard guage. THE POWER HOUSE is a brick structure 50x140 feet in size, and is theprotection of four 150-horse-power Taylor engines,one I so-horse-power Phoenix boiler and one iio-horse-power generator of the Thomson-Houstonmake. THE ROLLING STOCK consists of 24 cars, 16-foot bodies, with 5-footextended platforms, made by the old rehable firm ofJ. G. Brill & Co. Each car has four 15-horse-powermotors, Thomson-Houston pattern. The company displaced 185 horses bj- the substi-tution of electricity, and the gain in revenue of elec-tricity over horses is 40 per cent. The companjf employs over 200 men, and addsmaterially to every branch of trade by its cheaptransportation. The company is officered as follows: president,T. T. Hillman; first vice-president, Robert Jemison;second vice-president,

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Date before 15 May 1892
date QS:P,+1892-05-15T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1892-05-15T00:00:00Z/11
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(anon.): “Street railways in the South : The electric lines of Birmingham, Alabama” The Street Railway Review 2:5 (1892.05.15): p.238]]

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