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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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and Frei-herr von Bodenhausen, manager of the Westphalischer Stahl-werk, of Bochum, and also one of the directors of the StrassenEisenbahn Gesellschaft, of Hamburg. The party expects tovisit Milwaukee, Chicago, Buffalo, Boston and a few othercities during their visit in this country. ♦♦♦ The new Trinidad (Col.) Electric Railroad is doing a splen-did business, especially on the line between Sopris and Stark-ville. The business is so much greater (ban was anticipatedthat the equipment of the road will be at: once doubled. 842 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIII. No. 23. RECENT ELEVATED PRACTICE IN BERLIN BY JOHN P. FOX The electric elevated and underground railway in Berlin hasalready been described and illustrated in the Street RailwayJournal, June 7, 1902, Oct. 13, 1900, etc., but a recent visit,with study of details, has brought out some new points. Theelevated line not only presents features of great value to thoseinterested in urban rapid transit by trains, but it suggests a
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FIG. 1.—EASTERN SECTION, STANDARD FLOORING, LONGITUDI-NAL SECTION AT OUTSIDE RAILS. WITH PLAN OF RAILS means of providing express service with surface cars and asolution of the problem of getting interurban cars quickly intoand through cities without using the street surface, condemningland, or involving grade crossings. For if an elevated railwaycan be built complete for less than $300,000 a mile, so clean,decorative and sheltering as to be regarded a positive ornamentand benefit to streets, so quiet as to avoid all damages and allow portant, because, while, subways have their places, the fact thatelevated lines can be built for far less cost, with less dis-turbance and more quickly, affording pleasanter and quieterriding than subways, tends to make them desirable whereverpossible. It is interesting that the same effectual remedy fornoise should have been adopted independently in New York,Berlin and Paris—and that is ballast, on a solid floor, as usedby the New York Central engin

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