. The Street railway journal . acrificing comfort, others run comfortabletrains, sacrificing speed, but the trains of the Lake Shore & Michigan South-ern Railway are both speedy and comfortable. Its daily Twentieth CenturyLimited between Americas premier cities. New York and Chicago, has seta standard which has been neither surpassed nor equaled. Day after day,in fair weather or foul, this marvelous combination of American ingenuityand mechanical skill performs its appointed task in only twenty hours. Notonly is the Lake Shores roadbed the finest in the world, but its operatingequipment, sleep
. The Street railway journal . acrificing comfort, others run comfortabletrains, sacrificing speed, but the trains of the Lake Shore & Michigan South-ern Railway are both speedy and comfortable. Its daily Twentieth CenturyLimited between Americas premier cities. New York and Chicago, has seta standard which has been neither surpassed nor equaled. Day after day,in fair weather or foul, this marvelous combination of American ingenuityand mechanical skill performs its appointed task in only twenty hours. Notonly is the Lake Shores roadbed the finest in the world, but its operatingequipment, sleeping, parlor and dining cars are the best of their respectivekinds. Its connections with the Boston & Albany and New York Centraloffer excellent facilities for passengers from New England and the MiddleStates who desire to travel over its lines. That the Lake Shores serviceis the best is amply verified by the fact that the greater portion of the pas-senger traffic between New York and Chicngo is carried on its lines.***. The Nzaionewl Elevating Grader,Ditcher and Waggon Loader will excavate and place in embankment 1,000cubic yards of earth in ten hours or will load 500or 600 wagons per day. The above cut illustrates our special plow-tiltingdevice which adjusts the mould board to varyingconditions of soil. By MASON D. C. A. ALDEN The StreetRailway RoaclbecL** An essential feature of a well-equipped street railway is a goodtrack, and in this book are brought together and illustrated thevarious modern types of track material and methods of construction,with their good and bad features indicated. The authors are en-gineers of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, one of the largest manu-facturers of rails and special work in America, and are thereforeparticularly well equipped to treat of the subjects of which theywrite. All tiie various features of street railway roadbed constructionare carefully described, with illustrations where necessary, the latterincluding sections of
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