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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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bec District Railway, or, as itis now known, the Q., M. & C. Railway, meaning theQuebec, Montmorency & Charlesvoix Railway, success-fully completed its second year of operation, notwithstand-ing the many and varied difficulties, perhaps greater andmore serious in their nature than usually confront a streetrailway company. The first of these difficuties is the hilly—indeed, onemight almost say mountainous—nature of the city. Tothose who have not had the pleasure of viewing this quaint successful stand for the disputed possession of Canada.The Lower Town, situated at the waters edge, lyingaround the base of the hill—indeed precipice in manyplaces—is perfectly level, and is the chief business district.The Upper Town, on the other hand, possesses manygrades, the maximum track elevation above the LowerTown being 320 ft., which must be reached in one way oranother. To overcome the difficulties presented by these hillsseveral methods are adopted, it being obviously impossible
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VIEW OF LOWER TOWN, QUEBEC battleground where French power made its final and 1111-old city, rich in olden time relics, with its population ofFrench Canadians, its grand citadel and the old wall offortification encircling the Upper Town, extending alongthe very brow of the hill, it will be difficult to fully compre-hend the nature of the exacting conditions under which anelectric railway is operated in this city. The Upper Town has grown, expanded and pushed outbeyond the fortifications, the new portion being principallyresidential. Here arc the famous Plains of Abraham, the to ascend directly even for a horse slightly loaded. Onestreet, Cote St. Abraham, ascends the hill obliquely, andthough very steep is yet feasible, and here is located onecross-town route; a profile of the grades encountered isgiven on page 498. On this hill the heaviest grade is atCrown Street, one of 14.15 per cent—the heaviest traversedby the cars in Quebec—with, moreover, a 40-ft. radiuscurve at the top, h

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