Identifier: streetrailwayrev10amer (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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of occupation and number in enamel. The fare for the trip from Elmira to Watkins is 35 cents one way;no reduction is made for the round trip. We are indebted to .Mr. U. .\. Hegarty, general ~n))erinten(leiUof the Railways Company General, of Phil.idelphia. for this articleand the photographs from which the illustrations were made. FORT WORTH-DALLAS ROAD. We are advised by Col. J. T. Voss, president and manager ofthe Glenwood & Polytechnic College Street Railway Co., of FortWorth, Tex., that the results of a survey made for an interurl)anline to connect Fort Worth and Dallas are quite satisfactory. Frointhe terminus of the Glenwood & Polytechnic line to the endof the Dallas line at Oak Clifif is 26 miles. The route is tolerablyclose to the Texas & Pacific R. R. and to the Trinity River.There are no grades of more than 3 per cent and much of the wayis almost level. The estimated cost, including provision for 24cars, is $425,000. Orders for machinery and cars will have to be
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(•iK.sT c.\K ovEK rmc el.mika .\. senec.x i..\ke kv. There are also four side-dump dirt cars and two center-dumpdirt cars for construction purposes, also a hand-pump velocipedecar with collapsing ladders for emergency work, as fixing line, etc. Fig. 8 shows the first car to reach the terminus in Watkins; itcarried invited guests, including prominent citizens of the townsalong the route and ofificials of the railway, of the Elmira streetrailways and of the American Engineering Co. placed at least four months in advance, but it is hoped thai railscan be x>btained much sooner. The Consolidated Traction Co., of Pittsburg, makes a report forJuly showing gross earnings from operation of $254,973; operatingexpenses of $122,873; surplus of $14,588 after deducting interestand dividends on preferred stock. n •SkIT, 15. ;i)IIO. STRI.RT RAILWAY REVIEW. 519 CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION IN PARIS. EMPLOYES ASSOCIATION AT AUGUSTA, GA. The Fiuiioli IliijiiiMjii-l loustoii Cii. which has senile iiiipoVl

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