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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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lightis reached by an elevator system rising 216 feet throughthe cone of Jungfrau. This road which is more than 8 miles long, is operatedby electric traction. The gradient varies from i to 26per cent, and the line reaches a height 6,890 feet. Exclu- LETTER MAILING PLAN ABANDONED. Dublin postal authorities have tried the experiment ofplacing mail boxes on the street cars for the accommo-dation of persons who cared to mail letters. Althoughconsiderable money was used and efforts made to inducethe people to patronize it, after 19 months the ser-vice was abandoned as there was not enough encourage-ment to warrant its continuance. The postmaster gen-eral expected to extend the service on all the street rail-way lines of the city. Each car running in and out oftown on the Donnybrook line was provided with a box toreceive letters, the same as regular letter boxes. Col-lections were made by a carrier at the down town ter-minus of the line. As the people did not seem to take kindly to the ser-
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UP THE JUNGFRAU. sive of the starting point there are six stations boredinto the solid rock. Paths lead from the stations so thatpassengers may readily ascend by the mountain on foot,if they do not care to continue by the easier method ofbeing hauled. Each station is fitted with a dining roomand bed-rooms, the latter about the size of a steamshipcabin. They are lighted with electricity. Instead of continuing to the top of the mountain b)rail, passengers are transferred to an elevator, which isbuilt inside a circular iron lube that was sunk into a holeblasted in the rock. The elevator is operated by adynamo which is driven by hydraulic power from lakeLuchinen in the Lauterbrunnen. There is also a wind-ing staircase within the tube to accommodate those whodo not care to attempt the elevator. The illustrationsshow a car entering a tunnel, and a footpath by the rail-way. A station overlooking a glacier is represented.The right hand illustration shows the terminal with res-taurant, and the

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