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Title: Electric railway gazette
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: New York : (W.J. Johnston Co.)
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I/ENOX AVENUE CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION,NEW YOEK. The Metropolitan Traction Corapauy of NewYork City has been anxious to introduce mechani-cal power on certain of its lines now operated byhorses, but it has realized that permission to installa trolley system cannot be secured, as the popularfeeling against aerial wires is too strong. As thecompany wished, however, to discard animal powerif a satisfactory substitute cheaper than the cablecould be found, it determined to intioduce an elec- The contact shoe comes down through the slot,and has two arms pressing outwardly from thecenter supporting bar against the conductors,making a continuous rubbing contact. The volt-age on the line will be from 2.50 to 300 volts. The power station is located on 146th streetbetween Seventh and Lenox avenues. The workon the structure has been commenced and is pro-gressing rapidly, the side foundation of the wallsnow being built. The foundations were startedfrom a point about 3.5 feet below the grade of 146tli
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of the Alley Alley L road advanced over threepoints when the news of the loop projects was re-ceived. Two companies have been formed to builda downtown loop and both were incorporated up-on the same day. The first of these is the Cen-tral Elevated Railroad Company, which is theoutgrowth of the union of interests of the Metro-politan Elevated and the Alley Elevated com-panies. The corporation has a capital stock of$3,000,000 and among the incorporators are JohnWorthy, president of the Metropolitan Company,and Marcelus Hopkins, of the Alley L Company.The second company is the Union Elevated Rail-way Company, which proposes to build a down-town loop for the Lake street and new North-western Company. The capital stock is §5,000,000and the incorporators are John A. Roche of theLake street road; Egbert Jamieson, counsel of theYerkes roads; John B. Parsons, general managerof the West Side road; D. H. Louderback, generalmanager of the Lake street road, and others. Itseems to be an open quest

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