. The Street railway journal . DOUBLE CONDUIT LINE ON THE BOULEVARD failure on the West End system in Boston, a conduit road wasconstructed in Buda-Pest, Hungary, by the Siemens-HalskeCompany, and, as it was constructed in a very substantial manner,it is not strange that it proved a success from the start. TheBuda-Pest road is built with the slot adjacent to the tram railand not in the center of the track, as with the cable and conduitroads constructed in this country. In this case the slot servesnot only for the plow but also as a groove for the wheel flange, SOME OF THE OBSTRUCTIONS ENCOUNTE
. The Street railway journal . DOUBLE CONDUIT LINE ON THE BOULEVARD failure on the West End system in Boston, a conduit road wasconstructed in Buda-Pest, Hungary, by the Siemens-HalskeCompany, and, as it was constructed in a very substantial manner,it is not strange that it proved a success from the start. TheBuda-Pest road is built with the slot adjacent to the tram railand not in the center of the track, as with the cable and conduitroads constructed in this country. In this case the slot servesnot only for the plow but also as a groove for the wheel flange, SOME OF THE OBSTRUCTIONS ENCOUNTERED^ , . the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, offered a reward of$50,000 for a system of mechanical traction suitable for the 190miles of road then controlled by this company in New York was proposed, in order to have the sanction of the State, andthat the disposal of this princely reward might be entirely freefrom prejudice, to place in the hands of the State Board of Rail-road Commissioners both the investigation
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