. The Street railway journal . FiG. 4.—CAR HOUSE AND STATION—RAINCY. Enghien, Montmorency, Saint Gratien and other placeswithin easy reach of Paris. The French are a pushing, energetic people, ready toadopt any improvement when once its value is proved, so. FIG. 5.—CROSSING A LIFT BRIDGE—ROUBAIX. The electric cars are usually arranged to carry forty passen-gers, ten in the first class, ten second class and ten on eachplatform. Each car is equipped with two twenty-five horsepower motors, and each motor car can draw two trailers upa maximum grade at a speed of eight miles per hour. Thetrolley wi
. The Street railway journal . FiG. 4.—CAR HOUSE AND STATION—RAINCY. Enghien, Montmorency, Saint Gratien and other placeswithin easy reach of Paris. The French are a pushing, energetic people, ready toadopt any improvement when once its value is proved, so. FIG. 5.—CROSSING A LIFT BRIDGE—ROUBAIX. The electric cars are usually arranged to carry forty passen-gers, ten in the first class, ten second class and ten on eachplatform. Each car is equipped with two twenty-five horsepower motors, and each motor car can draw two trailers upa maximum grade at a speed of eight miles per hour. Thetrolley wire in Raincy is suspended from span wiresstretched between tubular steel poles. Outside the townthe line is suspended from single brackets placed on oneside of the highway. The two communities are already benefiting by the that the future for electric railway work in that countryseems extremely bright. Contracts have been signed for the construction of atunnel under the famous Simplon Pass in work, it is expected, will be completed in five and a halfyears at a total cost of $14,000,000, exclusive of the layingof the track. Instead of a double track tunnel, two singletrack tunnels will be built, separated b}^ a distance of fiftyfe
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