Identifier: streetrailwayjo271906newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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PASSENGER MOTOK CAR AND TRAILER, SERN VALLEY the time came. These precautions and improvements will un-doubtedly be found to be most convenient when the recon-struction of the system, now under way, is farther advanced. -»>^ The Toledo, Fostoria & Findlay Railway Company hascontracted for an automobile bus with a capacity of 12 pas-sengers, which will operate between Prairie Deport and Bill-mans, a distance of two miles. FREIGHT MOTOR CAR AND TRAILER, SERN VALLEY and connects the towns of Elm and Schwanden. The line fol-lows a rather tortuous public road, so narrow and abrupt thata large number of retaining walls had to be constructed be-sides widening the road in many places. About 8800 cu.meters were blasted out, 19,000 cu. meters of material (two-thirds rock) used for the retaining walls, and eleven metal orstone bridges constructed. Grooved rails, weighing ^2 kg per meter (about 64 lbs. per yard), are used in the villages and at cross-ings, but T-rail, weighing 25 kg per m

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