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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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n roads. This is especially true in lo-calities much frequented by tourists, where a trolley line,similar to those common in America, would be generallyopposed, on the ground that it would be liable to detractfrom the natural beauty of the scene. In such places, theauto-trolley omnibus may find a distinctive field. It hasalready been installed in France at Fontainebleau, and atEberswalde near Berlin in Germany, and now it is pro-posed to install an important line along the Corniche Roadfrom Nice to Upper Monte Carlo. This, undoubtedly, willbe the most important undertaking of this character thathas yet been attempted, and will be of interest not only to August 2, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 171 street railway men, but to American tourists and Europeantravelers. The Corniche Road was built by Napoleon I. and has almost unlimited facilities, both in time and money. Con-sequently, it offers an exceptional opportunity for a well-built, properly-managed and luxuriously-equipped electric
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AUTO-TROLLEY OMNIBUS LINE BETWEEN NICE AND UPPERMONTE CARLO BY THE FAMOUS CORNICHE ROAD been made famous by renowned writers, but it has beenpractically inaccessible, excepting to tourists who have had road, which will not interfere with carriage, bicycleand automobile traffic. This road runs through oneof the most picturesque parts of Europe. Beginningwith the point at which, flanking the hill, is placed therenowned Astronomical Observatory of Nice, thetourist enjoys the prospect of the Paillon Valley, thehills of Cimiez with the former residence of QueenVictoria perched upon it, the village of Falicon, averitable eagles nest on the one side, and the plainof Nice backed by the hills and the rocks of the St.Jeannet, rivaling the historical St. Anthonys Nose ofthe Hudson—a continuous panorama of ever-changing beauty and grandeur. Historical reminis-cences abound, and passing the pinnacle-placed townof Eze, shifting views of sea and land, backed by thekaleidoscopic atmospherical effec

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