. The street railway review . he trestles are built in a most substantial manner of Georgia pine. There is also one bridge spanof seventy feet, the abutments of which are laid inPortland cement, the span consisting of two 6-foot deckplate girders. A portion of the road is built overgroundpurchased outright giving perpetual right of way, andowing to the expenditure of a large amount of moneybringing the grade of the county road between (Jirardand Niles to the grade of the track afifty year franchise was granted over the greater portionof the distance between the latter named town
. The street railway review . he trestles are built in a most substantial manner of Georgia pine. There is also one bridge spanof seventy feet, the abutments of which are laid inPortland cement, the span consisting of two 6-foot deckplate girders. A portion of the road is built overgroundpurchased outright giving perpetual right of way, andowing to the expenditure of a large amount of moneybringing the grade of the county road between (Jirardand Niles to the grade of the track afifty year franchise was granted over the greater portionof the distance between the latter named towns. The car equipment consists of four 32-foot vestibuledcar bodies built liy the Barney & Smith Company, ofDayton, Ohio, mounted on McGuire maximum tractiontrucks equipped with G. E. 1,200 motors. These cars havecross seats with an aisle in the center, and will be welladapted to summer business. There are also two Pull-man vestibuled car bodies twenty-eight feet in lengthwith side seats mounted on McGuire maximum traction. <^^t!wdj^,aii^^ 159 tiiKks equipped with G. E. motors, and two Gil-bert 16-foot car bodies mounted on McGuire sint^le A itrucks equipped with G. E. motors. At present this line is being operated from the powerstation of the. Youngstown Street Railway Company inVoungstown. but a modern power house is to be erectedin Niles, Ohio, during the coming spring. It is also thepurpose to consolidate the two companies in the nearfuture, and the consolidated companies propose extend-ing the lines to other cities in the Mahoning Valle)-, The officials of this company are as follows: C. , president. Warren. Ohio; R. G. Sjkes, vice-president, Niles, Ohio; John E, McVey, secretary,Youngstown, Ohio, and A, A. Anderson, treasurer andgeneral manager, Youngstown, Ohio. The other direc-tors are Mr. G. E. Herrick, B. F. Miles and AndrewSquire of Cleveland. We heartily congratulate General Manager Andersonon his enterprise and success in this venture. NEW TYPE
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