. The street railway review . electricity, asdescribed in the Revikw for February, and all of themwill probably be so transformed in the near future. Thefirst line equipped with electricity runs from the Place dela Charite, near the center of the old town, along the rightbank of the Rhone, through the Perrach quarter (so calledfrom the name of a citizen who in the latter part of the lastcentury enlarged the town by moving the junction of therivers farther south) to Oullins, a town of 9,000 inhabitants,3 miles below the junction. One of our illustrations showsa construction car used for overhea
. The street railway review . electricity, asdescribed in the Revikw for February, and all of themwill probably be so transformed in the near future. Thefirst line equipped with electricity runs from the Place dela Charite, near the center of the old town, along the rightbank of the Rhone, through the Perrach quarter (so calledfrom the name of a citizen who in the latter part of the lastcentury enlarged the town by moving the junction of therivers farther south) to Oullins, a town of 9,000 inhabitants,3 miles below the junction. One of our illustrations showsa construction car used for overhead work on this line, andanother a snow plow. The snow (juestion is not a seriousone for the railways of Lyons, and no special cars are 17(3 (^twdrJ^^A^/^ needed for cleaning the tracks. Snow falls but seldom andis never so deep as to block traffic. For clearing the trackshowever, the triangular plow shown is drawn behind a carin regular service. The Place Carnot, a handsome square in the central EXHIBITION IN NEW SOUTH FICELLE TO CKOIX-ROUSSE. part of the city ornamented with a statue of the Republic,is the terminus of several of the tramway lines. Our illus-tration shows the old style double-decked horse cars. In addition to the horse and electric lines in Lyons thereare four cable lines, called Ficelles, which are employedfor reaching the plateaus to the north and west of the are double track lines on the balanced two cars, one ascending and one descending, areattached to the ends of a steel cable which passes about ailrum at the head of the incline, to which the motive power
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