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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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he bodies are mounted on Peckham M. C. B. typeof trucks and are equipped with General Electric 75 h. p. motors and given as about $30,000 in all, and the incorporators state that the newroads have nothing to do with any of the existing traction lines. Another company, called the Duquesne Heights Street RailwayCo., has secured a charter to build three miles of traction line, theincorporators of both of these companies being the same partieswhich constitute the board of directors of the Pittsburg &: Washing-ton Street Railway Co. The tunnel and line to Washington involvean expenditure of about $1,000,000 for construction. The routehas been practically selected, but information in regard to it is beingwithheld until the plans of the company have been more fully ma-tured. BERKSHIRE RAIL^VAY EXTENSION. The Berkshire Street Railway Co. has applied for a franchiseto extend its lines from Pittsfield, Mass.. to the New York stateline. The company expects to have its through line from Ches-
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JEWKTT C.\K WITH S.ASH RE.MOVED FOK SlMMHK Christensen air brakes. These cars are models of the latest designand equipment in street car building. ROME-NAPLES ELECTRIC LINE. The project for an electric railway between Rome and Naples,Italy, which has been undertaken, is to be supported by the gov-ernment. Power is to be furnished from the Tiber and VolturnoRivers, on which water power plants are to be located which it isexpected will furnish 8,000 h. p. The company expects to operate12 trains daily, each of which will have a capacity for 140 passen-gers. It is stated that the distance will be covered in three insteadof six hours as at present. shire to Great Barrington completed this fall, in which case cars■will be run on a portion of the road before January ist. TheBerkshire company has entered into negotiations with the Albany& Hudson Railway & Power Co., which runs cars between Albanyand Hudson to connect at the New York state line. This connectionwould give the Berkshir

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