. Electric railway gazette . uipped, and will soon beiperation. In their advertisement, thish, The Sprague Electric Railway andLo r company specify very interesting facts311 ;rning the operation of this electric jreat obstacles that have ,laj the success of this line extremely interest- FiG. I.—Richmond (Va.) Union Passenger Railway. laid on paved streets and the balance on maca-dam or unpaved streets, while all the extensionand branch lines are on unpaved streets, them in clay soil, where it would be almost animpossibility to operate horses. The doubletrack secti
. Electric railway gazette . uipped, and will soon beiperation. In their advertisement, thish, The Sprague Electric Railway andLo r company specify very interesting facts311 ;rning the operation of this electric jreat obstacles that have ,laj the success of this line extremely interest- FiG. I.—Richmond (Va.) Union Passenger Railway. laid on paved streets and the balance on maca-dam or unpaved streets, while all the extensionand branch lines are on unpaved streets, them in clay soil, where it would be almost animpossibility to operate horses. The doubletrack section partly encircles the old State Capi-tol and presents great difficulties. This part of a low valley through a series of grades, varyingfrom 3 to lo^L per cent., and then ascends a seriesof sharp grades and curves in a new district toone of the car-houses. Going west from theState-house the road rises to nearly the highestpoint in the city, and then runs through a resi-dential district across the R. F. & P. Road, and,. ;pi;.Ik?etj Of the accompanying illustrations. Fig. isnts the kind of cars used on this its success is assured, no doubt further will be of special interest. Sprague electric railway was put in suc- FiG. 2.—Carbondale and Jermyn (Pa.) Electric Railway. the line, in a distance of less than 1,000 feet, hason both east and west-bound tracks, fourcurves, the inner rails of the west-boundtrack being about 27, 30, 40, 50-foot power necessary to turn these sharp after several sharp curves, extends a further dis-tance of two miles to a second car-house beyondthe new reservoir. Two branches connect withthe main line, one leaving it at the old MarketPlace, crossing and paralleling the C. cSi O. R y 64 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. May, i8SS and terminating at its machine shops. The otherruns into what is properly known as Africa, asection almost exclusively inhabited by a coloredpopulation. The power house is situated two blocks awayfrom the nearest po
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