. The Street railway journal . ome are extending their present limits, whileothers are being rebuilt, one for cable traction and anotherfor an underground electric system. In studying thestreet railway situation of Washington, it must be remem-bered that all the street railway lines of the District ofColumbia are under the direct supervision of Con-gress, and none of them can effect a change of motivepower without a special act, and this has been secured in V7r 1894 car house and station will be erected, throi?|jhFw^ipto^rothe right of the street, the track will make a loop, bymeans of which t
. The Street railway journal . ome are extending their present limits, whileothers are being rebuilt, one for cable traction and anotherfor an underground electric system. In studying thestreet railway situation of Washington, it must be remem-bered that all the street railway lines of the District ofColumbia are under the direct supervision of Con-gress, and none of them can effect a change of motivepower without a special act, and this has been secured in V7r 1894 car house and station will be erected, throi?|jhFw^ipto^rothe right of the street, the track will make a loop, bymeans of which the cable trains will be turned. Thiswill be a gravity loop, and the cable will not follow theline of the track, but will encircle a terminal sheavelocated in the street. The present car house in George-town will be abandoned and devoted to other present length of rope, which operates the George-town division from the central power station, is 2,350 ft., butit will be correspondingly increased to operate the exten-. FlG. 1.—CABLE CURVE AT PEACE MONUMENT, FOOT OF PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE—WASHINGTON, D. C. the case of the Columbia Railroad Company and otherroads, which will be noted below. It should also be bornein mind that an act of Congress, passed some years since,prohibits the use of overhead wires for the operation ofany of the street railway lines within the city limits. Washington & Georgetown Railroad Company. All the lines controlled by this company are now op-erated by cable, and are run in three divisions known asthe Pennsylvania Avenue or Georgetown division, 7thand 14th Streets divisions. The Georgetown terminal ofthe Pennsylvania Avenue section is to be extended a dis-tance of 1,500 ft. to the Aqueduct Bridge, where a new sion. The length of the rope which operates the NavyYard end of the line is 31,500 ft., that on 14th Streetdivision is 27,700 ft., and on 7th Street division 33,250 ft. All the ropes now employed on this line are oneandj a quarter inche
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