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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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ed form of invoice, all notations, checks andapprovals are always 6n the face, always in the same place, do notin any way render the face of the invoice illegible, and cannot beerased, effecting a great saving in labor and lime. Philadelphia. C. L. S. TINGLEY, Secrt -V .\inerican Railways Co. The Street Railwax and Ferry Systems of Oakland, Cal. The Oakland Transit Consolidaled controls all the electric linesin Alameda County in addition to a ferry connecting Oakland withSan Francisco. The city of Oakland has about 100,000 inh;ibi-tants, and the electric railway connects it with Berkeley, Leandro,San Pablo, and other suburbs. .About 75 per cent of the resi- The pier, of which the ferry building is the Key Route ter-minal, is nearly 17,000 ft. long. The building itself has three tracks20 ft. apart, each track capable of holding eight 55-ft. cars. In ad-dition there is ample room for offices, waiting rooms, etc. At theshore end of the pier is a subway 1,300 fl. long. 30 ft. wide, and 25
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i.\ K 1,.\,\ 1 dents of these places do business in San Francisco, which providesnot only a large patronage for the railway system, but which alsomakes an efficient ferry service necessary. The length of the ferryis two and three-quarter miles and this distance is covered bythe fer^ boats in 15 minutes. From the pier, which is illustraail ft. deep, through which the road passes under the tracks of theSouthern Pacific Railroad. The subway is constructed of pilesand cement. The general view of the trolley used on the trains operating onllie pier and tlinnigh the subways is shown upon the forward car of

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