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English: «View of tramway line in Buenos Aires» (original caption)

Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
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
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isesas investments in the Argentine Republic it is worthy of considera-tion that all material for electric railways, as well as coal, is im-ported free of duty. Power for Electric Traction. Power for electric railway purposes in Buenos Aires is generatedexclusively by steam engines as there is no available water power COMPARATIVK STATE.MENT FOR JANfAKY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1904. Home Traction Electric Traction 1903. 1904. 1903. 19<M. Stations 20 20 10 10 Length of lioe^... 2S3.68Sl<w 2S3.685kw 230.5S9kw 230 Number of cars... 1.241 1.241 4aS 469 Cars in dailv use. 411 ,S03 374 385 Horses in dally use 6,924 7,017 Number of em- ployes 2,630 2,731 2,012 2.012 Number of passen-ters carried .... 20.155,202 10,7.; I.»l 11 251,105 18,744430 Receipts $1,685,730 (1,698,046 $1,710,539 $2,030,346 TOTAL FOR THREE MONTHS. 1903 1904 Increase. Passengers carried both horse and electric.. 31,400,307 35,495,888 4.089.581 Total receipts horse and elfctric traction .... $3J9(,,269 $3,728,392 $332,123
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VIEW OF TR.\MW.\Y LINE IN IlLENOS AIRES. Ave. 20. 1004.1 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 507 within a distance tliat for the present wonUl render its ntilizationcommercially practicable. The .MIgemeine Klektricitaets Gesell-schaft of Berlin, Germany, operates in Buenos .Vires nnder the nameof Compania .Memana Transatlantica de Electricidad and this com-pany has an entire monopoly of the supply of electric current forlighting, power and traction with one exception, that being the Tlic ;K)\vcr stations of tlic German company, as it is generallycalled, are four in number, two of which furnish direct currentand two three-phase current. Tbese stations have at present acombined capacity of 16.050 h. p. and to this figure there is beingadded 3,000 h. p. direct current and 3.000 h. p. alternating current,for which the machinery is now being erected. There is also an-

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Guillemo A. Puente: “Notes on the street railway systems of Buenos Aires” The Street Railway Review XIV:8 (1904.08.20): p.506

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