. The Street railway journal . |«-Smoking ;j. Street NEW CARS FUR LINE 3, METROPOLITAN RAILWAY traffic. Horse tramways have, in several cases, been changedto mechanical traction, a case in point being the northern cir-cular line (No. 2), above which a horse tramway existed overa great part of its length, and where steam trams with a three-minute headway are now run. All applications for trolley con-cessions, however, have been refused by the municipality. Thewhole question of surface traction has thus been forced intoprominence, and at the present moment a municipal commis
. The Street railway journal . |«-Smoking ;j. Street NEW CARS FUR LINE 3, METROPOLITAN RAILWAY traffic. Horse tramways have, in several cases, been changedto mechanical traction, a case in point being the northern cir-cular line (No. 2), above which a horse tramway existed overa great part of its length, and where steam trams with a three-minute headway are now run. All applications for trolley con-cessions, however, have been refused by the municipality. Thewhole question of surface traction has thus been forced intoprominence, and at the present moment a municipal commis-sion is traveling through the principal cities of Europe and theUnited States in order to study the conditions affecting tram-way interests, with the view of dealing effectively with the de-mands of the several surface traction companies in Paris, someof which are in a state of insolvency. December 31, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1149 THE INDIANA-OHIO TROLLEY TRIP The trip of Indiana managers over Ohio and Indiana inter-urban lines, referred to in
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