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Identifier: streetrailwayjo141898newy Title: The Street railway journal Year: 1884 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries


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Text Appearing Before Image: SECTION AT JOINT OF DEMERBE RAIL, GENEVA

Text Appearing After Image: SECTIONS AT AND BETWEEN TIE RODS, GENEVA of the oldest electric railways, having been built by the Siemens& Halske Company some ten years ago. As will be remembered,it employs slotted conductors, with interior contact shoes and twoconductors, one for the outgoing and one for the return circuit.The power station contains both railway and lighting generators.The cars are of the double-deck type. The section to Montreuxis a single-track cog-rail system, with a gage of 1 m., is also ope-rated by the overhead trolley system, and is especially noteworthysince there is a grade of 15 per cent. The cats have four com-partments, and accommodate over eighteen seated and twelvestanding passengers. The road from Territet to Rochers de Vayeis made up of two systems; first, a 690 m., long double-track cableroad with a maximum grade of 57 per cent. The cars containwater compartments, which are filled at the top of the incline andemptied at the base, so work by gravity, the speed being regulatedby


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