The street railway review (1891) (14758294261)

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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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1897); perfected Serpollet system (1897). The mile-age is thus divided; mechanical, 55 miles; animal, 1.30 miles. The Tramway Company of Paris and the Department of theSeine is about to equip its system with double truck cars oper-ated by rapid charge accumulators, Thomson-Houston system.The General Parisian Tramway Company is to establish an over-head trolley line from the Bastile to Charenton. The GeneralOmnibus Company has made application for authority to equip 16of its line for mechanical traction. PROSPEROUS AUSTRALIAN COMPANY. LIFT BRIDGE NEAR MONTREAL. The city of Montreal is joined on the west by the town of St.Paul, Atwater avenue being the dividing line; immediately across the Lachine canal, on the north side are St. Henry op- l We have received the 25th annual report of the directors of theMelbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company which was submittedto the stockholders at their regular meeting on August 16, last.It shows an income for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, of
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ROLLING LIFT liRIDGE DESIGNED BY FRANCOIS LAPOINTE. posite St. Paul and Ste. Cuuigonde opposite Montreal, the twobeing divided by an extension of Atwattr avenue. A bridge atthis point has long been desired, the nearest bridge being overa mile east of Atwater avenue, making a long ditour necessaryto travel between St. Henry and St. Paul. The municipalitiesinterested liave sent an imposing diputatitn to Ottawa to l:iy thequestion of a new liridge before the ministry and it is under-stood that the Dominion Parliament will act on the matter atthe coming session. As the bridge is to be used by ssveral street car lines as wellas for general foot and vehicle trafllc. and the canal traffic isheavy, a type is desired which can be manipulated quicBly.The councils of the several municipalities have accepted andstrongly recommend the plans submitted by Francois Lapointe,a Canadian architect and engineer, now of Chicago. The ac-companying illustration shows the general arrangement in eleva-tion. T