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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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g to hear the members of the council speak of usingcoercion or prosecution against the offending Com-pagnie Generale des Omnibus. Disputes as to the itineraryof a proposed line arise and matters progress but slowly in (^otu£tj\ailAVa^l^^ SOI coiiscqiic-ncf. The pulilic is wc-arv of the pulilishcd (hs-cussions and of the unavailing threats of the municipalityagainst the great street ear company which for fifteen years tocome will in(>ni)))oliy.e the right to transport the inhabitantsof Paris. In addition to the new lines referred to, there are sometwenty or thirty others proposed. There can not be lessthan 240 miles of lines projected, which really require to be WILL RUN SPECIAL MAIL TRAINS. The Chicago City Railway has re-built a couple of gripcars for the exclusive purpose of hauling postal cars. Thesegrip cars are fixed so as to be inaccessible to passengers.The idea is to do away with the delay and interference tomail cars by passenger traffic as when hauled in passengertrains.
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,\iAlL TRAIN \v:tH SPECIAI. GKll—CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY. built. Only mechanical power is possible or permissible inoperating such an extent of road, and French engineers areclosely watching the best systems prevailing in America. As substitutes for the trolley the underneath wire electricline (surface contacts in road) from Paris to Romainville,the Serpollet steam, and the Mekarski air cars on other linesappear to serve well. The passenger cars containing motorsoscillate so much as to produce a feeling of fatigue not notice-able with electric trail or horse cars. A new line to be worked by underground electric current,is to connect the Western Station (Gare St. Lazare) withthe Place du Temple on the east side. A narrow gage line(Decanville system) is proposed to connect the VilletteAbattoirs with the quays of the different canals runningsouthward towards the Seine. Track laying is proceeding with great activity in manyparts of Paris. In view of the lines which will be blockedat the Tr

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