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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 subject of a recent folderof the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Ry., the third-rail electric roadbetween the Fox River Valley and Chicago. Besides the usualinformation regarding time tables, fares, a description of the line,etc., an unusually fine panoramic map of the route is shown incolors in the interior of the folder. This company is making anactive publicity campaign in and about Chicago, which is meetingwith a great deal of success. The pamphlet was published by Rand.McNally & Co., Chicago. 470 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. rVoi.. XV. \o. S. Exeter Corporation Tramways. Tile ancient calhcilral citv ol Exttcr, so well known lo lovers niDevonshire, has been long in securing aood transportation facilities,but it now has a system of electric tramways which brings it wellup to date, and shows that although a town may have many re-ligious and historical associations, it need not therefore necessarilyhave no modern conveniences. Some J5 years ago an attempt was made by progressive spirits
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INTEKIUR VIEW OF POWER HULSE. to build a horse tramw.iy. but the scheme met with such violentopposition that by far the most useful sections had to be abandoned.The sections built were duly opened, but as their value was somaterially crippled through the exclusion of the lines from HighSt., the principal thoroughfare, finarcial failure resulted, andthe company suspended operations. The undertaking was takenover by a syndicate, which very soon was compelled to abandon theservice to St. Davids Station (at one extremity of the line), onaccount of the excessive cost of working which the severe gradientof St. Davids Hill entailed, and although this was the most usefidsection so far as the public were concerned, the unfavorable condi-tions under which it was run made it impossible to pay expenses. same time extending the routes throughout the whole town, butafter much negotiation the scheme fell through. When the periodof 21 years had nearly expired, at the November elections in igoothe rat

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