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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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uburban towns including Hackensack, the countyseat. As shown in the map (Fig. 2) the projected lines ofthis company will reach all of the towns in this section.At present they are served by steam railroads riuniingnorth and south in the valleys and tunneling the Palisadesto reach Jersey City. Hitherto the rocky plateau on the top of the Pali- The Palisades were the barrier to extension. In theneighborhood of Fort Lee the terminus of the ferry fromManhattanville, as the region at the western end of 130thvStreet, New York, is termed, two attempts were made toreach the top of the bluff, one by means of an inclinedplane, and the other by means of an electric railway up thehighway. These failed on account of the expense anddifficulty of the engineering features involved. They, 336 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 6. directed attention however to the possibilities of the de-velopment of this section and a syndicate was formed tocarry out some plan to scale the bluff and to open up the
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2.—MAP SYSTEM BERGEN COUNTY TRACTION territory beyond. Consulting engineers were employed,and the ferry company purchased. After a careful expertexamination, it was decided to change the New Jersey terminus of the ferry to a point directly across the riverfrom Manhattanville instead of at Fort Lee a mile above.The new ferry landing was then to be the terminus of an electric railway and thePalisades were to bescaled by a zigzag sidehill cut with a switch-back half way up. This general planhas been followed out.The Riverside & FortLee Ferry Companychanged its New Jerseyterminus to PleasantValley, directly oppositeits New York slip, thefoot of West 130thStreet. Two slips, a ferryhouse, coal wharves andoffices have been con-structed at Pleasant Val-ley. Directly behindand adjoining these isthe terminus of the Ber-gen County TractionCompany with carhouse, power house andoffices. The road hasbeen in operation as faras Leonia since the mid-dle of April, and alreadyhas developed a large

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