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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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o lower stories are devoted to a restaurant and at-tractions in the line of autoharps, stereopticons, etc. Onthe upper floor is a large observation room, furnished withnumerous telescopes for the use of visitors. This floor hasan elevation of 1266 ft. above the level of the sea. Mountain Park, which is located at the foot of the in- cline, is a most attractive resort, and is visited annually byvery large numbers of people. It contains a large Denzclcarousel, located in a special building; a bicycle track, to-boggan slide, menagerie in which are birds, monkeys andother animals; a deer park, and an open-air theatre, inwhich during the summer two performances are givendaily. Reserved seats in this can be secured for five cents,but the performance can be watched from a short distanceaway without extra charge, if desired. The treads of cast-iron wheels have the hardest surfacewhich it is possible for the manufacturers to provide, andthis hardness !s absolutely necessary for the service re-
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FIG. 16.—TURN-OUT, SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF RAILS ALLOWING CAR TO PASSOVER CABLE OF OPPOSITE CAR quired. This surface cannot be touched by a tool to anyextent. It is harder than hard steel, and when brake shoesof the same material are used, or shoes of considerablehardness, friction results instead of wear, with a conse-quent burning of the treads of wheels, in many instancesshortening the life of the latter and putting the railroadcompany to a great deal of expense in replacement ofwheels or in having them refitted; hence it becomes a ques-tion of wheels versus brake shoes.— From paper read atthe Atlanta. Ga., Convention, 1894. 424 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Vol. XIV. No. 8. The Holland & Lake Michigan Railway. The Holland & Lake Michigan Railway, which wasopened July 4, extends from east to west along Black Lake,an arm of Lake Michigan on the east shore, and connectsHolland, a city of some 11,000 people, with Macatawa, sit-uated on Lake Michigan at the inlet to Black Lake. Ma

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