. The Street railway journal . withstanding thefinancial depression that has prevailed. This increase oftraffic has been induced, doubtless, by careful manage-ment, and by attention to all the little details of servicewhich make a line popular with its patrons. The city terminal of the line, makes a loop aboutthe government building, touching a corner of FountainSquare as do all the other lines in the city, with one ex-ception. The first division is divided by an incline planewhich starts at the head of Main Street, on which thecars are transferred to the upper plane, when they con-tinue their
. The Street railway journal . withstanding thefinancial depression that has prevailed. This increase oftraffic has been induced, doubtless, by careful manage-ment, and by attention to all the little details of servicewhich make a line popular with its patrons. The city terminal of the line, makes a loop aboutthe government building, touching a corner of FountainSquare as do all the other lines in the city, with one ex-ception. The first division is divided by an incline planewhich starts at the head of Main Street, on which thecars are transferred to the upper plane, when they con-tinue their course over a thickly settled route to the origi-nal terminal of the line at the entrance to the ZoologicalGardens about four miles from the Post Office. Morerecently, the tracks have been extended to Carthage, O.,a further distance of four miles, to which the passengers The number of grades is very considerable, espec-ially on the approach to the foot of the incline, wherefor several blocks there is a 13 per cent, grade, and. FIG 11.—DOUBLE FUSE BOX AND MAGAZINE-INCLINED PLANE RAILWAY. -CINCINNATI
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