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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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pipe brackets, on which is suspended two No. 000 Fig. 8trolley wires placed i ft. apart. These wires are crossconnected every ten poles, and one acts as a feeder to theother. The winter cars on this line are veritable palacecars. They are 50 ft. long, are operated by four SS^Pmotors, equipped throughout with Westinghouse airbrakes and contain smoking and baggage compartments.
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ROTARY SUB-STATION TROLLEY EXCURSION CARS on the Canadian side and St. Catharines, and entered intorunning arrangements with the International TractionCompany, which operates all the lines in Buffalo and Niag-ara Falls, and then proceeded to electrify the old steam roadto St. Catharines. An extension of 6 miles was built fromSt. Catharines to Port Dalhousie, on Lake Ontario, and aboat service was instituted between Port Dalhousie andToronto. Franchises have been given between Hamiltonand St. Catharines, and the road between these points, half The open, or summer, cars are the fifteen-bench type, seat-ing ninety people, and both types of cars are so arrangedas to operate at maximum speed of 50 miles an hour.Acetylene headlights are used entirely, the companyhaving had special burners arranged for its cars. The company also owns and operates two fast lake boats,one of which is illustrated, which run between Port Dal-housie and Toronto. Each boat will carry about 1000people and from 50 t

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