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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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at theydo not extend outside the posts. The cars are 22 ft. 11 ins.long, have 4-ft. platforms and measure about 30 ft. overthe dashers. Their width at the sills is but 5 ft. j\ ins.and the seats are 5 ft. 11 ins. in the clear. The wheel basein this case, as in the other, is 7 ft. The seats are slat withopen backs having ash spindles. The inside finish of thecar is cherry with three-ply quartered oak head lining.The total weight of the car is only 7160 lbs. From the topof the sill to the step is but 13 ins., and the distance fromthe head of the rail is only a little greater. ♦♦♦ Tramways of Nice and The Littoral The towns along the Riviera from Cannes, France, toMenton, are being connected by an electric road. Theentire system is being installed by the French Thomson-Houston Company, of Paris, which is directing all itsenergy toward completing the line at as early a date aspossible. A 10,000-volt transmission line from Mescla,30 km (18 miles) inland, supplemented by a steam plant
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CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AT NICE at Nice will supply the power. When finished there willbe 150 km (63 miles) of single track included in the streetlines of Nice and the stretch of 50 km (31 miles) along thecoast. The former horse car system of Nice has been greatlyextended and new lines have been added in and about thecity. In the central portions, and especially on such streetsas are traversed by the parades of the annual carnival, ithas been thought desirable to build an underground con-duit, but everywhere on the outskirts of the city the over-head trolley is used. The cars are adapted to travel overeither system. The construction of the conduit was delayed by last July 7, 1900.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 629 winters season, during which no work was allowed in cer-tain sections, but it has since been pushed ahead night andday and, notwithstanding the numerous points wherecrossings of the lines occur with their accompanying elab-orate special work, is almost entirely completed. The con-du

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