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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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possibilities of through traffic between NewYork and Boston and the adjoining sections that four maps arepublished herewith showing the electric railways in operation,those proposed and under construction and the steam railroads.The maps were compiled and are published in this paperthrough the courtesy of White & Warner, of Hartford, pub-lishers of a manual, Trolley Trips Through Southern NewEngland/ from which has been taken the information in r^- June 20, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 909 gard to fares and running time given here. The maps havebeen brought up to date and show the status of the differentrailways at the beginning of the present season. A book of this kind must be of great assistance to trolleyexcursionists, and has undoubtedly had an influence in increas-ing this class of business on the roads in Southern New Eng-land. This paper recently called attention to the importanceof giving through travelers information of this kind in case THE COST OF HIGH TENSION LINES
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ELECTRIC RAILWAYS BRIDGEPORT and WORCESTER Copyright, 1902. White & Wamer. any attempt was made to cater for through business, and it is,perhaps, somewhat strange that similar manuals descriptive ofether sections of the country have not been published. The uses to which abandoned street cars arc put continue tomultiply. Out in San Francisco there is a village, the principalresidences of which are made up of street cars. In Kansas Citythe car on which Hugh J. McGowan, now of the IndianapolisStreet Railway Company, acted as driver, has been convertedinto a lunch wagon. In St. Louis a cobbler uses a car as a shop.But a particularly nf)vel use is being made of acar in NewYork, where one has been fitted up by an evangelist as a meet-ing house. The trucks of the car have been removed, thewindows curtained and the floor carpeted. The car will hold33 people in adtlition to a small organ, a piano and a concertina. The cost of high-tension power transmission lines is a func-tion of many var

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