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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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the abandonment of the steam plantand the substitution of rotary transformers for the gener-ators. ^ftjwd^^f^^Jiht^^J^w^ G89 NIAGARA FALLS PARK & RIVER RAILWAY. THE opening to traffic of the Niagara Falls Park &River Railway last June, marked a distinctadvance in electric railway practice and a newera for sightseers around Niagara Falls. The road is aCanadian enterprise and is built entirely on Canadiansoil, following closely the Niagara river for a distanceof II yi miles between Queenstown and Chippewa,affording a \iew of falls and river that can be obtained in the road, aside from the electrical features, is very similarto that of a steam road. It follows the edge of the bluffso closely that nowhere is it more than sixty feet fromthe edge. To do this it was necessary to go over gov-ernment land, and about $10,000 per annum is paid forthis privilege. A good idea of the scenery along the linecan be obtained from our engravings. The road is ballasted with broken stone, quarried
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SCENES ALONG aUE NIAGARA FALLS PARK AND RIVER RAILWAY. no other wa), not even by patronizing the exhorbitanthackman, who has so long held sway in this vicinity.The promoters of the enterprise are all well knownCanadian business men, the officers being president, E.B. Osier, Toronto; vice president, William Hendrie,Hamilton; secretary, R. A. Smith, Toronto; generalmanager, W. A. Grant, the latter being formerly with theGrand Trunk Railroad. The mechanical and electricalengineer is W. Phillips. The road and water powerplant are built according to the plans of W. T. Jennings,civil engineer of Toronto. The general description of along the way. Fifty-six pound T rails are spiked tocedar ties 2 to 2)^ feet centers. Curves are somewhatsharper than those permitted on steam roads. Guardrails and braces are provided at curves. The heaviestgrade is near the northern terminus at Queenstown,being lyi miles long, varying from 3 to S)^ per cent,and ascending 346 feet. The trolley lines and feeders a

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