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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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s laid onthis avenue, which is the finest residence street in the city.The car tracks occupy a reservation in the middle of thestreet, the overhead construction being supported bycenter poles. The street is shaded by beautiful live oaksand water oaks. Most of the houses are modern in theirarchitecture, and many of them are very fine, while thelawns are shaded and ornamented by magnolias, liveoaks and flowering shrubs, making the route an attractiveone for pleasure riders. Mobile & Spring Hill Railway Company. This company operates seven miles of single trackwhich extends from near the river wharf to Spring Hill,situated upon a high range west of the city. This wasformerly a dummy line, but began running electrically inJune, 1893. The steam trains are still run over the sametracks for carrying freight which consists principally ofvegetables from the neighboring truck farms whichabound all about Mobile. The motor cars were built bythe St. Louis Car Company. There are five motors and
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FIGS. 10 AND 11—VIEWS NEAR LAK five trailers which are mounted on Peckham and St. Louistrucks, there being four of the former. The electricalequipment consists of Winkler motors, manufactured bythe United Electric Columbia Company, of Kingston,N. Y. The power for operating the lines is rented from theElectric Light Company, of Mobile, which employs Gen-eral Electric generators. Wendel Goodwin is presidentof the railway company, Ferdinand Smith, vice-president,and J. H. Bleoo, general manager. New Orleans. This is the second visit that the writer has paid toNew Orleans. The first was in October, 1861, when, with500 comrades (prisoners of war from the first Bull Runbattle), the city was reached after a ten days journeyfrom Richmond, Va. This visit covered a period of fourmonths, during which time the writer was quartered inthe east wing of the old Parish Prison at the corner ofOrleans and Treme Streets, sixteen men being confined ineach cell, the dimensions of which are 10 X 12 ft. Bu

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