. The Street railway journal . theJungfrau, will, it is said, at last be constructed, permissionhaving been obtained from the Swiss Federal rack system, in connection with electricity, will beemployed. _ A CONTROLLING interest in the Nashua (N. H.) StreetRailway Company has been secured, it is said, by Bostoncapitalists. The Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Manchester Trac=tion Company. The Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Manchester TractionCompany of Pittsburgh, incorporated July 25, 1891,was formed by the consolidation of the Pittsburgh, Alle-gheny & Manchester Passenger Railway Company, astreet
. The Street railway journal . theJungfrau, will, it is said, at last be constructed, permissionhaving been obtained from the Swiss Federal rack system, in connection with electricity, will beemployed. _ A CONTROLLING interest in the Nashua (N. H.) StreetRailway Company has been secured, it is said, by Bostoncapitalists. The Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Manchester Trac=tion Company. The Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Manchester TractionCompany of Pittsburgh, incorporated July 25, 1891,was formed by the consolidation of the Pittsburgh, Alle-gheny & Manchester Passenger Railway Company, astreet railroad company dating from 1859, and the Pitts-burgh Union Passenger Railway Company, incorporatedin 1879. The charters and franchises granted to thePittsburgh, Allegheny & Manchester Traction Companyhave a life of 999 years, as have those granted to theroads entering into the consolidation. The districtsthrough which the lines of this company run, includethe business part of Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, as. ALLEGHENY & MANCHESTER TRACTION CO. well as the most desirable residence portion of Allegheny,while two of its branches serve a section of the city inwhich many of the large manufacturing establishmentsare situated. Connection between Allegheny and Pitts-burgh is obtained by two bridges across the Allegheny,which are controlled by the company. One of thesebridges, shown with its Pittsburgh approach on this page,is the most modern of the many Pittsburgh bridges, andclaimed to be the finest bridge structure in Western Penn-sylvania. The road was operated as a horse road until 1891,when horse power gave way before electricity, and theroad underwent entire reconstruction. In August, 1890,the reconstruction of the tracks was begun, and the heavygirder rails, sixty-three pounds per yard, laid upon a per-manent roadbed with a concrete foundation. At thesame time the entire length of all its branches was laid inblock stone. Desirous of escaping the many difficulties anddangers
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