. The Street railway journal . MOTOR CAR ON METROPOLITAN RAILWAY, PARIS prises inaugurated during recent years in France. Theroad was put into operation in July, 1900, and importantextensions are now under construction which, when com-pleted, will bring the road into connection with nearly everyimportant traffic center in the city north of the Seine. As will be remembered from the description of the roadwhich appeared in the Street Railway Journal for Sep-. EIGHT CAR TRAIN, METROPOLITAN RAILWAY tember, 1900, the original line extended from the Porte deVincennes to the Porte Maillot and was a d
. The Street railway journal . MOTOR CAR ON METROPOLITAN RAILWAY, PARIS prises inaugurated during recent years in France. Theroad was put into operation in July, 1900, and importantextensions are now under construction which, when com-pleted, will bring the road into connection with nearly everyimportant traffic center in the city north of the Seine. As will be remembered from the description of the roadwhich appeared in the Street Railway Journal for Sep-. EIGHT CAR TRAIN, METROPOLITAN RAILWAY tember, 1900, the original line extended from the Porte deVincennes to the Porte Maillot and was a double tracktunnel, the rails in which were located at an average depthbelow the surface of the street of only about 15 ft. to 20 ft. The tunnel is 14 ft. 9 ins. high above the rails and be-tween stations is about 23 ft. 4 in. wide. On curves theside walls are carried out to give an additional clearanceof about 7 ins. The greater part of the rolling stock con-sists of 4-wheel cars, following in this respect the usualFrench steam railroad practice, and the cars themselvesare similar in. general design to the French railroad cars. 3°6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 10. The original train service was conducted by trains offour cars each, of which the leading car only was a motorcar, and was equipped with one controller and two popularity of the road as a means of transit throughParis made it soon evident, however, that an increase in
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