. The Street railway journal . STREET SCENE IN SAO PAULO, SHOWING ONE OF THE OLD CARS of Sao Paulo and the other in Santos, a city of 60,000 in-habitants, about 50 miles distant from Sao Paulo, and oneof the most important ports in Brazil. The plant andequipment of the Viacao Paulista includes about 57 miles 83o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 35. of track in Sao Paulo, 153 passenger cars, with an average suspend operations until these cars have passed, then be-seating capacity of twenty-three, twenty-six freight cars, ginning their work again quickly. Of course at night the. INTERIOR O
. The Street railway journal . STREET SCENE IN SAO PAULO, SHOWING ONE OF THE OLD CARS of Sao Paulo and the other in Santos, a city of 60,000 in-habitants, about 50 miles distant from Sao Paulo, and oneof the most important ports in Brazil. The plant andequipment of the Viacao Paulista includes about 57 miles 83o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 35. of track in Sao Paulo, 153 passenger cars, with an average suspend operations until these cars have passed, then be-seating capacity of twenty-three, twenty-six freight cars, ginning their work again quickly. Of course at night the. INTERIOR OF STEAM POWER STATION, SAO PAULO two locomotives, 2300 mules, and ten car shops andstables. The company has in its employ in charge of the workat Parnahyba H. L. Cooper, one of the best known hy-draulic engineers in this country. The general business ofthe company in Brazil is under the charge of Robert , formerly electrical engineer of the West EndStreet Railway, of Boston, afterwards chief engineer of theMontreal Street Railway Company, and later general man-ager of the Halifax Electric Tramway Company, of Hali-fax, N. S. A. Mackenzie, of the firm of Blake, Lash &Cassels, of Toronto, is in charge of the legal interests ofthe company. —M~ Changing the Broadway Road From Cable to Electric Power The Metropolitan Street Railway Company, of NewYork, is utilizing the usually slack traffic months of Julyand August to make the necessary changes in the conduitof the Broadway cable railway to fit it for electric work is in line with the policy of the compa
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