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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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ere-tofore the power was transmitted from Altadena to thepower house on Echo Mountain. On account of thedeath of Electrician A. W. Decker, the plan to use stor-age batteries has been abandoned. The success of the road has been marvellous. Cali-fornian tourists, since January i, traveled to Echo Moun-tain to the number of 150 to 350 a day. The necessity PLEASURE RESORTS AND CREATED TRAVEL. The Toronto Scarboro Electric Railway.—A Pleasure Resort Route. PART V. Toronto is unusually blessed in the way of fine naturalparks near at hand, but it took the citizens as a whole along time to find this out. Among the first to discoverand act upon it were the promoters of the Toronto Scar-boro Electric Railway. When completed, this systemwill comprise about fifteen miles of suburban belt lineconnecting the towns located in the beautiful country eastof Toronto, with that city, developing a suburban countryresidence district as well as a pleasure resort business.It will carry freight and express.
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of an extension is conceded by the twenty or thirty tour-ists who daily go via burro further on up Mt. Lowe. The very latest feature is the publication of a dailyand weeklj illustrated paper on the mountain, and namedthe Mt. Lowe Echo. G. Wharton James is the editor,and his publication is the finest of its kind extant. The all powerful British Board of Trade has justissued its regulations relative to the protection of gasand water pipes from electrolysis. One of the conduc-tors between the generators and the motors must be com-pletely insulated from the earth. The return undercertain conditions need not be. All feeders must be soinsulated that leakage may not exceed 1-1,000 amperesper mile. If the leakage exceed y^. ampere per mile, itmust be stopped in 24 hours or the cars cease. A trip over the road now laid is one of the most pleas-ant outings available to the Toronto citizen. Taking aKing street car of the Toronto Railway Company, he issoon at Woodbine station, the city terminus o

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