. Electric railway journal . es of traffic crosseach other. At this point the old tracks and special workhad to be removed, the grade lowered about 2 ft. and newrails and special work put in between the hours of midnightSaturday and 5 a. m. Monday, on account of the leveling ofa hill in the business district of Pittsburgh. Among the interesting signs accompanying the exhibit isone placed over three types of track stating that the costper mile of double track has increased 1000 per cent intwenty-five years, the horse-car track costing $7,862, thefirst electric track $27,616 and the present trac
. Electric railway journal . es of traffic crosseach other. At this point the old tracks and special workhad to be removed, the grade lowered about 2 ft. and newrails and special work put in between the hours of midnightSaturday and 5 a. m. Monday, on account of the leveling ofa hill in the business district of Pittsburgh. Among the interesting signs accompanying the exhibit isone placed over three types of track stating that the costper mile of double track has increased 1000 per cent intwenty-five years, the horse-car track costing $7,862, thefirst electric track $27,616 and the present track $89, sign placed over the exhibit of different types ofmotors reads: Fifteen types of motors used in Pittsburgh. candles and oil lamps; seating capacity, sixteen fare up hill was 10 cents and the fare down hill was 5cents. Signs over one of the new steel trail cars readas follows: A street-car ride is the one thing in Pittsburgh cheaperto-day than ever before. True, it still costs 5 cents, but how. Pittsburgh Exhibit—View Showing Old-Style Car, Samplesof Track Construction and Moving Picture Cabinet long was the average ride ten years ago and how long isthe average ride now? A 5-cent fare in hilly Pittsburghamounts to only one-half as much per passenger mile as a5-cent fare in most level cities. The well-known low-floor car of the Pittsburgh Railways
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