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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ady Railway Co., the General Electric Co. and the Ameri-can Locomotive Co. and became their guests Thursday and Thurs-day night, January nth. During the day the Schenectady RailwayCo. arranged for special cars over its lines radiating from Schenec-tady and many of the guests took advantage of this opportunity toinspect the nearby properties. ■ * « » The Interborough Rapid Transit Co., of New York City, is nowcarrying an average of 1,250,000 passengers a day. An Electric Line in a Cemetery. The opening of a private electric line in Loudon Park Cemetery,Baltimore, Md., illustrates another interesting location for trolleycars. The line is owned and operated by the Loudon Park Cenietery Co., of which Mr. Henry F. Thompson is president and Mr.Frank Primrose secretary-treasurer. The road has been installedfor the convenience of the cemetery lot-holders. The grading ofthe road was completed on November nth. The mad was formallyopened on November 15th with a luncheon in honor of the Mary-
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MAUSOLEUM AND CARS IN LOUDON PARK CEMETERY. land Funeral Directors Association, tendered them by the LoudonPark Co. The road is about a mile in length and will be further extendedas the needs of the cemetery require. The track starts at the mainentrance to the cemetery on the Frederick Road and passes directlyin front of the receiving vault, where a special side track has beenput in to accommodate the funeral car. Continuing, the route takesa southerly direction, following closely a small stream which flowsthrough the grounds, through the old portion of the cemetery.Thence it runs westerly to the proposed Wilkens Ave. entrance,where it is intended to have the line connect with the Wilkens Ave.tracks. Switches will be built at convenient points, so that the carscan be run to within a short distance of the lots. Connection withthe Frederick Ave. line will shortly be made, so that the funeralcar of the United Railway & Electric Co. may be run directly tothe receiving vault. The track

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