File:The Street railway journal (1896) (14574970109).jpg

Identifier: streetrailwayjo121896newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
eration last month. The road is 7 J4 miles long, hasfour twentj-eight foot, nine seated open cars of Brill man-ufacture, and two closed combination baggage and passen-ger cars, seating sixteen passengers, also from the BrillAvorks. Each car is equipped with two 1000 G. E. motorsand K 10 controllers. Two miles of the road are laid withsixty-seven pound girder rail, the remainder with fifty-sixand fifty-eight pound T rail. Lewiston is the terminus of the New York CentralRailroad at a point where the boat is taken for Toronto.Young.stown, six miles further down the river, is a pleas-ant old established little village, and the site of Fort Ni-agara, an old U. S. military point, where there will shortlybe a full regiment of troops stationed. The officers of the road are : president, L. D. Rum-sey; vice-president and treasurer, Henry C. Howard; sec-retary, Karl Evans; attorney, F. R. March; chief engineer,Paul Voorliees; superintendent, R. B. Goodman; passengerand freight agent, Karl Evans.
Text Appearing After Image:
THE PLANK WALK ALONG THE OCEAN AT ASBURY PARK. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 9. J The Electric Railway of Rome, Italy. The trolley has invaded the Eternal City, and thedwellers on the Seven Hills now ride along the streets ofRome on the trolley car, through places sanctified b) history,at a rate of travel that would have astonished the ConscriptFathers and, perhaps, even scared the immortal Caesarhimself. The question of utilizing electricity for the operationof street cars in Rome has been debated since the comple-tion of the electric installation, transmitting the powerof the waterfall at Tivoli to Rome, and with the knowl-edge that electricity was in the city and available forpurposes other than lighting, came a growing desire fora change from animal traction to some more satisfactoryand cleanly method. Italy had already acquired .some experience with theelectrical method of traction. The old Sprague road inFlorence has been run satisfactorily for years, and. re-cently at

Note About Images