. The street railway review . CROSSING THE KUINS OF THE CAflTOL. ^twd%\lw^svAcw 317 nection with the transformers and provides for the fluctua-tions in the load; during two or three hours in the eveningthe turbines at the water plant are shut down and the roadoperated by the battery alone. The grades on the line are many and some of them are. k iaaaaM»airTwwi itrirwnTmMiignrra M PIAZZA VENEZIO-SAN PAOLO LINE. as steep as 8 per cent; the curves vary in radius from 66to y-j ft. The track is laid with Phoenix rails of girdersection weighing 67 lbs. The rails are bonded with doublecopper bonds; at

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. The street railway review . CROSSING THE KUINS OF THE CAflTOL. ^twd%\lw^svAcw 317 nection with the transformers and provides for the fluctua-tions in the load; during two or three hours in the eveningthe turbines at the water plant are shut down and the roadoperated by the battery alone. The grades on the line are many and some of them are. k iaaaaM»airTwwi itrirwnTmMiignrra M PIAZZA VENEZIO-SAN PAOLO LINE. as steep as 8 per cent; the curves vary in radius from 66to y-j ft. The track is laid with Phoenix rails of girdersection weighing 67 lbs. The rails are bonded with doublecopper bonds; at intervals of 150 ft. there are cross bonds,and every 500 ft. the four rails of the two tracks are crossIjonded. There are 43 motor cars with capacity for 16 first-class

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