. The Street railway journal . ads have recently been removed, ^PRIL 9, I904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 553 both in track and rolling stock,from animal to electric tractiontural Park line was pur-chased. About the sametime the Mateo Streetand San Pedro Streetlines were acquired. The Los Angeles Rail-way Company now oper-ates seventeen lines with-in the city limits, cov-ering miles oftrack, while proposed ex-tensions will bring thetrackage up to As will be noticedon the accompanyingmap, Fig. 1, these lines,indicated by heavy fulllines, radiate from thecenter of the city to all
. The Street railway journal . ads have recently been removed, ^PRIL 9, I904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 553 both in track and rolling stock,from animal to electric tractiontural Park line was pur-chased. About the sametime the Mateo Streetand San Pedro Streetlines were acquired. The Los Angeles Rail-way Company now oper-ates seventeen lines with-in the city limits, cov-ering miles oftrack, while proposed ex-tensions will bring thetrackage up to As will be noticedon the accompanyingmap, Fig. 1, these lines,indicated by heavy fulllines, radiate from thecenter of the city to allparks and residence sec-tions. The Pacific Elec-tric Railway and the LosAngeles Interurban Rail-way Companies, whoselines are indicated re-spectively by long dashand short dash lines,operate a few citybranches in connectionwith their interurbanroads. The Los Ange-les-Pacific Railway In 1898, after being changed their cars in the city indicated respectively by the dash and dotthe Main Street & Agricul- and light full FIG. FIG. 3—SWITCHING TOWER AT Company and the Los Angelespany, which operate interurban 1 2.—VIEW OF BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES, SHOWING STREET WITH NO TROLLEY POLES,SPAN WIRES BEING SUPPORTED FROM BUILDINGS TRACK AND OVERHEADWORK For paved and grav-eled streets the trackconstruction is identicalwith that of the PacificElectric Railway Com-pany, described and il-lustrated in the StreetRailway Journal ofFeb. 27, with the follow-ing exception: The LosAngeles Railway linesare all laid with a in. gage. In some por-tions of the city, particu-larly in the new Gar-vanza extension, someunusually heavy gradingwas necessary for theconstruction of the branch running toWestlake Park on Sec-ond and First streets hasa number of very heavygrades, the maximum be-ing 11 y2 per cent. In the overhead con-struction t h e PacificElectric standards areused, all trolley wirebeing of No. 000 double-grooved wire. The side-
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