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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 warrant the cost of electricalequipment, so that horse cars have been continued almostas private stage or omnibus lines might be, frequently some of these, too, will find a place perhaps, in smalltowns or villages or on long distance interurban lineswhere car service is infrequent and the expense of powerstation installations would be too great a burden. In-ventors of these systems are seriously handicapped by thedisinclination of street railway managers to look into theirmerits carefully, owing to the strong hold which electrictraction has upon the imagination, and the well nigh uni-versal testimony to its merits. Electric traction is now almost universal in America,over 90 per cent of the entire street railway mileage beingequipped with this motive power. The overhead wiresystem is most generally used, the underground con-duit having been adopted only in New York City andWashington, where climatic conditions are favorable, andwhere the city sewerage systems—an absolute necessity
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CROSSING OF AN ELEVATED RAILWAY, A STEAM SUBURBAN RAILROAD AND A SURFACE LINE owned by an individual and run as a strictly private enter-prise. The cable system has been blasted out of the streets inall except three or four cities, in which it is also doomed,and where steps have already been taken to replace it withelectric traction. The reasons for this are too well knownto require repetition here. Compressed air cars are now in regular operation on theTwenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets line in New YorkCity, the largest installation yet made in America, andthe most carefully worked out in detail. So far, they ap-pear to be giving excellent satisfaction to the public, andwhile they have been running for too short a time to de-termine the cost of operation, it is believed that they havesome place in modern street railroading. Other experi-ments in compressed air are being made in Chicago, butwithout well defined results as yet. More or less extensive experiments are also being made

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