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Electric Railway Cars & Trucks John Stephenson Co. 1905 reprint Stephenson Co Ca
Electric Railway Cars & Trucks John Stephenson Co. 1905 reprint of the Stephenson Co Catalogue
Glenwood Publishers
Hard Cover
88 pages
Copyright 1972 REPRINT
Contents
Interurban Cars.4-13
Brill Semi-Convertible Type .14-22
Stephenson Semi-Convertible Type.23
Brill Convertible Type24-31
Convertible and Semi-Convertible Types Combined 32-35
Brill "Narragansett" Type of Open Car .36-39
Standard Open Cars .40-41
Standard Closed Cars42-43
"California" "Type.44-45
Combination Open and Closed Cars46
Top-Seat Cars 47
Drawing-Room Cars 48-49
Standard Types of Platforms and Vestibules .5o
Standard Seating and Compartment Plans51
Baggage, Express and Sub-Station Cars 52-53
52-53 Snow Plows and Sweepers54-57
Sprinkling Cars 58-5
9 Brill Single-Truck, No. 21-E .. 60-63
Brill "Eureka" Maximum-Traction Truck.64-67
Brill Short-Base Double-Truck, No. 27-G.68-71
Brill Short-Base Double-Truck, No. 27-F.72-73
Brill High speed Truck, No. 27E.74-79
Brill " M. C. B." Truck 80
American Car Company's " M. C. B." "Truck.81
Stephenson " M. C. B." Truck81
Supplies and Car Specialties.82-86
INTRODUCTION
The electric railway industry reached its peak on the eve of the Panic of 1907. The electric streetcar, which had been perfected by Frank J. Sprague on installations in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1887 and in Richmond, Virginia, in 1888, proved to be one of the most rapidly accepted innovations in economic history. In 1890, 70 per cent of street railways were still animal-powered; by 1902, 97 per cent were electrified. Mileage was nearly 22,000, and the industry was carrying about 5 billion passengers per year. By 1906, at the height of the great Edwardian prosperity, more than 90 per cent of trips on urban public transportation were made by streetcar. Most of the rest were made by rapid transit, which was built in a few of the largest cities following Sprague's invention of multiple unit control on the South Side Elevated of Chicago in 1897. Somewhat less successfully, Sprague's invention was adapted to rural use through the building of the interurbans, mainly after 1899.
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