. The Street railway journal . ectric railway is operated in this city. The Upper Town has grown, expanded and pushed outbeyond the fortifications, the new portion being principallyresidential. Here arc the famous Plains of Abraham, the to ascend directly even for a horse slightly loaded. Onestreet, Cote St. Abraham, ascends the hill obliquely, andthough very steep is yet feasible, and here is located onecross-town route; a profile of the grades encountered isgiven on page 498. On this hill the heaviest grade is atCrown Street, one of per cent—the heaviest traversedby the cars in Quebec—
. The Street railway journal . ectric railway is operated in this city. The Upper Town has grown, expanded and pushed outbeyond the fortifications, the new portion being principallyresidential. Here arc the famous Plains of Abraham, the to ascend directly even for a horse slightly loaded. Onestreet, Cote St. Abraham, ascends the hill obliquely, andthough very steep is yet feasible, and here is located onecross-town route; a profile of the grades encountered isgiven on page 498. On this hill the heaviest grade is atCrown Street, one of per cent—the heaviest traversedby the cars in Quebec—with, moreover, a 40-ft. radiuscurve at the top, half of it being on the grade. It was necessary, however, to provide another cross-town route at the other end of the city, but here it was im- g 496 possible to ascend the streets. After much thought hadbeen devoted to the subject, a trestle, a side elevation ofwhich is given, was finally adopted—the alternative beingan elevator to raise or lower the loaded car—and con-. TYPICAL STREET IN THE OLD QUARTER OF QUEBEC structed in a convenient location. This trestle ascends thefirst portion of the hill obliquely with a grade of 7 per cent.( )n reaching a certain point, where the trestle meets oneof the cross streets, a curve was located on a levelsection on the trestle, after which thegrade is 11 per cent for 300 ft., then 4per cent till the Upper Town is finallyreached. The second hindrance, and a mostimportant one in Northern countries,is the handling of the snow, whichfalls very heavily in these of itself is bad enough, but snowand hills combined are enough to dis-hearten the most optimistic of man-agers. Nevertheless, the regular runsare performed with, perhaps, muchshorter intervals of stoppage than inlarger cities further south, where theyare unprepared to cope with such adifficulty. For instance, the snow falllast winter was ins., the largeston record, and of this ins. fell inMarch alone, yet th
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