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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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and operatinx st.inilpoinl where asteam road failed. At l.nzerne, which is four miles northwest ofWilkcsbarrc. connection is made with a line of tlic Wilkesbarrc &Wyoming Valley Traction Company. lrom this point a steamfoad was first constructed rmniin).! )J miles in a northwesterly di-rection to Harveys Lake, which is a Kreat iileasure resort. The around. .At the lake the company has laid out a ;)ark and picnicgrounds, and built a large summer hotel. On the first eight milesof the line there is a rise of 797 ft., then it drops to an elevation of,36t ft.; the highest altitude being 1.400 ft. above sea level. Theaverage graile along the route is 2.6 per cent. In addition to thelake park there is another picnic ground in the mountains aboutfour miles from Luzerne. In stringing the wires a locomotive wasUsed, and rapid and effective work was done in this way. There is but one power station and that is on the bank of a smallcreek at Luzerne at the terminus of the Wilkesbarrc road. The
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ROTARY CONVKRTICR IN StUi-STATlON.HARRISBURC TITBULAR liOILERS. CAR HoL^K.POWER STATION ASD COAL CHfTE. Steam line was a failure and last year the company was reorganizedwith John Graham, general manager of the Wilkesbarrc & Wyom-ing Valley Traction Company, at its head. Immediately after thepurchase plans were set on foot to equip the line for electric trac-tion. This work was delegated to James Fagen. who for sevenyears has been the electrical engineer of the Traction Company.The original plan was to build a power station midway on the line,but this was abandoned for a site at Luzerne and alternating cur-rents for transmission. As may be seen from the various illustrations the route is througha mountainous country, the track being on a curve or grade alongits entire length; in fact, the only piece of straight track is south ofHarveys Lake for a distance of 1,600 ft. as shown in the map.Commencing at Luzerne the line goes up into the mountains, pass-ing through several settlement

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