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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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lphia Rapid Transit Co. Ilnt-i-neerinj; Ieatiires of the Subway and IMevated Divisions New Hrid«e Over the Schuylkill River. An orcliiiaiice for tlio constiiuiimi of ilie Marlcet Street ElevatedPassenger Ry. was approved liy llio city of Pliiladclpliia, Apr. 9,igo2. By tliis ordinance the city granted permission to tlie applyingcompany, of wliieli the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. is nowlessee, for the eonstrnction of an elevated railway structure alongthe Delaware River front north and south of Market St.. a subwayof two tracks from the Dclaw.are River to the city hall, a single structures which at that time occupied the space allotted to thesubway structure. The reproduction of the map tif the business district of Philadel-phia between the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers has indicated uponit the route of the subway and of the elevated portion of the lineextending along the Delaware River. The four-track portion ofthe subw.iy is now built from the Schuylkill River east as far as the
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NEW .SllnVl.kN.l. klVER BRIDGE OK rilll.AliEl.lH l.\ U.\pn« TR,\.\SIT CO. IORT.M. OF M.-\RKET STREET SUBW.W .\T LEFT. track subway loop about the business district east of the city hall,a four-track subway from the city hall west to the Schuylkill Riverand a double-track elevated structure from the river west to thecity limits of Philadelphia at 63rd St. Some of the conditions imposed upon the railway company werethat conduit spaces should be furnished along the structure for citywires, sound caused by moving trains should be deadened accordingto the latest known engineering practice, provision shoidd be madefor catching all drips and falling substances from the elevatedstructure and that the railway company bear the expense of adjust-ing the location of all sewers, pipes, conduits and underground city hall. The bridge across the Schuylkill River is ready for thetracks and w-ork upon the elevated structure from the river westtowards 63rd St. is well under way. Oiie of the earliest pr

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