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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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rous effect on the earnings of the surfacelines, as the L will take the bulk of the long-haultra\el in which, bv reason of the endless stops, there ispracticallv no profit for a surface road. It is alreadybuilding up a large and heretofore unoccupied territorj-,which will yield a good business of short riders for cros.s- 124 ^iife^a**^^^^^ town surface lines. It enables residents to go further outand still reach and leave their offices the same as before,and the road will at once enter on a business almostunparalleled in the history of new lines. The streets andalleys of Chicago are so long and wide, and laid out withsuch uniformity, that elevated roads can be built by thedozen, and it is hardh to be expected that the occasion The street railways of the United Kingdom have artaggregate of 948 miles, with 27,719 horses, 515 locomo-tives, and 3.801 cars. The electric railroad between St. Paul and Minneap-olis ought to be a great success, as the two cities arenegative and positive poles.
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SIDE VIEW OF ELEVATED EAILEOAD STATION. will e\er require the building of under-ground lines,involving such enormous expense and difficult of access:not to sav less desirable than riding in free air and natural lio-ht. F. J. Pe.vrsox, general manager of the Trans-MissouriElectrical Construction Co., has duplicated, on a somewhatsmaller scale, the famous wind-mill storage battery systemof lighting, at his residence in Lincoln, Nebraska. Inthat State there is always a good breeze summer and It is required of street car hnes in Chicago to pave thesixteen feet occupied by their tracks at the time the cit)^paves the balance of the street. Recentl)* PresidentYerkes desired an extension, which was granted, and theorder passed in which the city agreed to pave eighteenfeet of the street. Now the laugh is on the city, for thestreet is only wide enough for two tracks, and when thecity has paved its eighteen feet there wont be any leftfor the compan)- to improve, but they do not seem to begreatly

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