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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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o make himself as small and 688 liyht as possible as he peers over some precipice wiiosewalls stretch clown some two thousand feet or more ofsheer descent. However, the burro has had his day,save for an occasional acheiUurer who may make theascent by trail, but who will be very certain to comedown by rail; for the first section of the new road isalready finished and in three months more the track willtouch the summit. The foregoing will sufficiently sug-gest the difficulties which have so relunctantly yielded tothe irresistible march of man. tracked, and continues so to the summit of the cone, calledEcho Mountain. The average <;r.\dk is 6o ikr cent, and the car speed on this portioti of the road is only fourmiles an hour, which, however, is quite enough for manypeople, to whom the si.\ minutes consumed in making theascent seems as many hours. The length of this sectionis 2,600 feet, with a vertical rise of 1,600 feet, making itthe steepest railway in the world; the Mt. Pilatus rack
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VA. 1UK1N< CONSTRUCTION Ol The generating and transmission of power on this linepresent several NO\EI. AMI tIRKJINAE KKATURES. The road starts with a trolley system at Alledena, aquiet little village at the foot of the mountains, and thereconnects with the Los Angeles Terminal Railroad.Nothing unusual in construction appears here. For thefirst two miles a gradual grade of 7 per cent isencountered, bringing the visitor to the Rubio Canyon,a rugged mountain gorge. Here the road is confrontedby a bold, cone shaped mountain, like a huge invertedsugar bowl. Here also the character of the road ch.\m;i:s i-rom trolley to cable system, but without change of cars here or at anyother point on the line. Thus far the route has been asingle track, T rail construction with the ordinary over-head wiring. The cable section, however, is double road in Switzerland* being next in order, with a grade of48 per cent. The car is raised by an endless cable,which passes around a horizontal terminal sheave

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