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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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rviceinto the center of the city. Northwest of the old city, andquite near it, are thickly populated districts, one of whichis so densely populated that electric lines will be wellpatronized for short distance riding. The present mule July, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 451 tramway lines are so circuitous that time can often besaved by walking. The Pearson-McKenzie syndicate has obtained a con-cession for the lines shown on the accompanying map.These are laid out in such a way as to give the whole citya good service, but it is not believed that the development The new syndicate has obtained the government ap-proval for a type of street car, which is almost an exactduplicate of the Broadway (N. Y.) car, and also for amodification of the rail section to the Trilby sectionshown in the accompanying drawing. At present therehas been shipped to Sao Paulo 10 miles of track, with 10u Street Ry..Journal SECTION OF ROADWAY -Gauge-d-: I L < „ G Steel Tic 5 9 long -20— -3-2 V P ©; N <
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Plan at Tie with Paving removed. Street Ry .Journal SECTION AND PLAN AT TIE OF T-RAIL CONSTRUCTION of the system will stop with the completion of these lines,for there are desirable suburbs to be reached. Coal in Sao Paulo sells for $10 per ton, and wood isequally costly. As a consequence, the price of gas andelectric lighting is high, and none of the city lighting isas yet done by electricity. Five thousand commercial in-candescent lamps are, however, supplied from the presentstation. The electric light service be-gins at sundown and, except for a fewlarge customers, extends only untilten oclock in the evening. About 20 miles west of the city ofSao Paulo is the only large waterpower near the city, with a probableminimum supply of 10,000 h.p. to 20,-000 h.p. This has been secured by thePearson-McKenzie syndicate, whichintends developing power and trans-mitting it to Sao Paulo for furnishingthe lighting, railway and power ser-vice. The introduction of cheappower into a city where steam

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