. The street railway review . orces and Mount a 6o-per cent. grade—Without exception the Steepest Railway in the World—A Tiny Mountain Brook furnishes all the Power -The road owned by one Man. THE millenium of traction motive power wouldseem to be approaching, for on a lofty moun-tain in the far west a road is now nearing com-plection in which the rival claims of cable endtrolley join hands, and even the storage battery becomesan indispensible link in the strange chain of combinedforces. With a further disregard for the establishedorder of things, the steam engine, boilers and belts are air on
. The street railway review . orces and Mount a 6o-per cent. grade—Without exception the Steepest Railway in the World—A Tiny Mountain Brook furnishes all the Power -The road owned by one Man. THE millenium of traction motive power wouldseem to be approaching, for on a lofty moun-tain in the far west a road is now nearing com-plection in which the rival claims of cable endtrolley join hands, and even the storage battery becomesan indispensible link in the strange chain of combinedforces. With a further disregard for the establishedorder of things, the steam engine, boilers and belts are air on the rapidly rising foot hills of the Sierra Madremountains. Of this historic range one peak towersabove the rest like a mighty sentinel. It is Mt, Wilson,whose bold, majestic apex rises 6,000 feet above the bluewaters of the Pacific, only a few miles distant. Thiseminence has long been one of the most favored resorts,but the means of reaching it were so arduous that, ofthose whose health a brief sojourn at the peak would. TEMPORARY 1 R AN blORTATIOX DURING CONSTRUCTIOM. wholly ignored, and, as if in keeping with the surroundingstupendous exhibition of nature in rugged mountain andever widenmg valley, the inventive genius of man hascome close to natures heart, and a little mountain stream,which one may cross at a single step, is coaxed from itstiny channel between the rocks and made to furnishpower which shall transport enraptured sight-seers to thevery mountain-top itself. The combination mentioned stands out conspicuous asthe only one of its kind on the continent, and displays soingenious, interesting and curious features that a fewwords descriptive of the place and the needs which havebeen mother to the invention, become quite necessary toa complete understanding of the work. Seven miles to the east of Los Angeles, the metropolisof southern California, is the beautiful httle city of Pasa-dena, and, two miles further on, the valley is lifted in the most benefit, few have
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