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Title: The Street railway journal Year: 1884 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: set its greater complication of circuits remains to be seen.The key to the whole situation is the extent to which single-phase motors for general purposes can be made to competein general operative qualities with polyphase motors, and ofthis it is too early in the game to speak with certainty. 552 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. 15. NOTES ON LOS ANGELES RAILWAY COMPANYS SYSTEM Detailed descriptions have just been published in these col-umns of many interesting features of the Pacific Electric Rail-way Companys system in and about Los Angeles. To describethe system of the Los Angeles Railway Company in all its de- is president of and controls both companies, but the other stock-holders and officers are not the same in both. The two systemsare operated separately. The features of the similarity arethe standards of track and overhead construction and the powersupply. In rolling stock, car houses and methods of operating,the Los Angeles Railway Company has distinguishing features

Text Appearing After Image: (Inglewood Bin MAP OF LOS ANGELES, CAL. SHOWING RAILWAY SYSTEMS Pacific Electric Ry Cos Lines Los Angeles Ry Cos Lines Los Angeles Interuiban Hy Cos Lines Los Angeles Pacific R.R. Los Angeles & Redondo Ry Cos Lines Tracks used in common by two or three lines Pacific Electric Interurban Depot Projected Lines FIG. 1.—ELECTRIC RAILWAYS IN LOS ANGELES Street Ry. Journal partments would involve repetition of much that has beenprinted about the Pacifics electric system, since, in many fea-tures, the two companies have the same standards. The LosAngeles Railway Company is the older corporation, and whileits lines and equipment have been steadily developed andbrought up to a high state of efficiency, the Pacific Electric Rail-way Company has necessarily had a more phenomenal growthduring its short existence of two years. Henry E. Huntington which will be the main subject of the present article, points ofsimilarity and identity being briefly mentioned. The Los Angeles Railway Company was

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