Identifier: streetrailwayrev01amer (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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, NewYork; Charles T. Yerkes, Esq., president North Chi-cago Street Railway Company, Chicago; John B. Par-sons, Esq., vice-president and manager West ChicagoStreet Railway Company, Chicago; A. Langstaff John-ston, C. E., Richmond, Va.; J. Vernon Campbell, Esq.,Baltimore, Marjland; E. S. Moffat, Esq., superintendentLackawanna Iron and Steel Company-, Scranton, Pa., andmany others. itSii S^mlM;&^ %rte«?:- 401 Coi;:
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Schneiders Combination Cars.lONSIDERABLE interest has been awakened oflate ill new styles of building street cars, growing)Ul of the great activit)- in railway constructionand the desire of new roads to put in service an equip-ment which shall please the fast-increasing great army ofriders. This has had a tendency to cause the old stylecars, which had for so long a time been considered prettynice, to gradually become back numbers, until now everymanager is anxious to iinpro\e and keep up with thetimes. To meet the demand from many roads for some methodof reconstructing their old cars, and also to accommodatethose smaller companieswho desire open andclosed cars but who donot feel justified in main-taining two full equip-ments of rolling stock,has lead J. G. Schneiderof Chicago to patent twotypes of adjustable car. One is the winter carwhich may readily be co.v.iii.vATioN close. converted to an open car by the removal of the outerpanels which are made in sections and held in place atthe

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