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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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IRON TRULLKV POLE ON BRYANT STREET, BENT AS A RE-SULT OF THE INTENSE HEAT. THE VIEW, INCLUDINGTHE CHINAMAN REFUGEE ON THE LEFT AND THEDEAD DOG ON THE RIGHT, IS TYPICAL OF SCENESCOMMON AFTER THE FIRE slots which made it impossible to operate cars on the cablesystems in this city. Mr. Loss suggests that the Mayor ap-
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ELECTRIC RAILWAY TRACKS OF UNITED RAILROADS, OF SANFRANCISCO, SHOWING HOW RAILS WHERE PAVING HADNOT BEEN RELAID WERE TWISTED OUT OF SHAPE BYBURNING GAS FROM STREET MAINS. THE TIESWERE FIRST BURNED, PERMITTING THE HEATTO WARP THE RAILS IN THE STRANGE MAN-NER INDICATED point a committee of prominent citizens and experts to goover the Geary Street roadbed, and decide for themselves ifan underground system is practicable. Loss & Company have over 1000 men at work laying tracksin the streets of the city, under lease of the Ocean Shore Rail-way, and with the permission of the Mayor. When completedthis road will be used to carry off debris from private propertyand will be used in conjunction with the Southern Pacific andSanta Fe railroads. The laying of the tracks has alreadybeen begun, and the road will be operated along the followingroute: From Twenty-Fourth and Clapp Streets to FifteenthStreet;. along Fifteenth Street to Howard Street; HowardStreet to Spear Street to Market Street, to

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