. The Street railway journal . FIG. 13.—TYPICAL SCENE AT LONG BEACH ON THE PACIFIC picturesque structure built in the Swiss style. This electric lineis constructed on a uniform grade of 7^ per cent, with manycurves and loops. With the exception of the track at the EchoMountain end the longest piece of tangent track on the wholeline is but 227 ft. long. The sharpest curve has a radius ft, with 264 degs. 39 m., and forms one end of a loop. A March 5, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 355 number of views of this line are presented in Figs. 5 to 10, whileFigs. 5 and 12 show unique features on
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 13.—TYPICAL SCENE AT LONG BEACH ON THE PACIFIC picturesque structure built in the Swiss style. This electric lineis constructed on a uniform grade of 7^ per cent, with manycurves and loops. With the exception of the track at the EchoMountain end the longest piece of tangent track on the wholeline is but 227 ft. long. The sharpest curve has a radius ft, with 264 degs. 39 m., and forms one end of a loop. A March 5, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 355 number of views of this line are presented in Figs. 5 to 10, whileFigs. 5 and 12 show unique features on the line, consisting ofa circular bridge. This bridge is built on a radius of ft,and is 252^ ft. long, the curve having 246 degs. 38 m. PACIFIC LINESFig. 11, which is of a 49-ft. trolley car on the electric linepassing San Gabriel Mission, is typical of the change that has.
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