. The Street railway journal . built throughthe villages of Mount Royal Vale and Notre Dame desGraces and into the town of Westmont (formerl)^ Cote ), a place of 5,000 inhabitants. This extensioncarries the line three miles further, making it sixmiles in all. Still further extensions iire planned fromWestmont to Lachine, through Kensington, MontrealJunction, Blue Bonnets and Rockfield, a distance of 7 1-2miles, and it is thought tliat in 1S96 the line will be con-tinued from Lachine to the end of the Island through sixor seven townships, so that the Companys entire sjstemwill be not
. The Street railway journal . built throughthe villages of Mount Royal Vale and Notre Dame desGraces and into the town of Westmont (formerl)^ Cote ), a place of 5,000 inhabitants. This extensioncarries the line three miles further, making it sixmiles in all. Still further extensions iire planned fromWestmont to Lachine, through Kensington, MontrealJunction, Blue Bonnets and Rockfield, a distance of 7 1-2miles, and it is thought tliat in 1S96 the line will be con-tinued from Lachine to the end of the Island through sixor seven townships, so that the Companys entire sjstemwill be not les;. than 40 miles in length. The line to Cote-des-Neiges is double tracked iind isbuilt in the same way as the Back River line, except that angle fish plates are used on the track and the rails arelaid with broken joints. The company owns eleven closed motor cars,seven open motor cars and seven open trail of the closed cars were built by N. & A. C. Lari-viere and two by the J. G. Brill Co., while the open cars. STATION ON MONTREAL PARK & ISLAND RAILWAYwere built by Canadian manufacturers. The andtrail trucks were built by the Peckham Motor Truck &Wheel Co. and the Canada Switch & Spring Co. The company owns fourNo. ^:; and eight No. 12Westinghouse motors fur-nished by Ahearn & Soper,and fourteen Royal Elec-tric motors. The company has notyet built its main powerstation, preferring to waituntil its lines are full}built before determining upon the location. At
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