. The Street railway journal . paint shop, and is very fullyequipped for prompt and efficient work. The main car storage house is located at Mustafa, near theBulkeley sub-station, and has a capacity for storing seventycars. This building is constructed of cut stone, with spaciousand conveniently arranged interior and a substantial steel roofconstruction. It contains six tracks, each of which is builtwith a pit, and is equipped with Taylor pit jacks for the removalof motors. This paper is greatly indebted for this information to NelsonGraburn, general manager of the road, through whose energeti
. The Street railway journal . paint shop, and is very fullyequipped for prompt and efficient work. The main car storage house is located at Mustafa, near theBulkeley sub-station, and has a capacity for storing seventycars. This building is constructed of cut stone, with spaciousand conveniently arranged interior and a substantial steel roofconstruction. It contains six tracks, each of which is builtwith a pit, and is equipped with Taylor pit jacks for the removalof motors. This paper is greatly indebted for this information to NelsonGraburn, general manager of the road, through whose energeticefforts the entire installation was completed in nine success of the new work was largely contributed to by theable and thorough co-operation of the chairman of the Alexan-dria & Ramleh Railway, H. E. Boghos Pacha Nubar, and of thechairman of the Alexandria Tram Company, J. Lumbroso. ♦♦♦ crater, and about 360 ft. (no m) below the present grades on this line, which is practically a cable incline. THE NEW MT. VESUVIUS ELECTRIC RAILWAY The problem of building a railway up Mt. Vesuvius is onethat has had a peculiar fascination for the engineer. Its solu-tion involves certain conditions that are not likely to occuragain in Europe, for while that continent possesses severalother active volcanoes, none of them is of such commandingimportance and interest as Mt. Vesuvius. Its situation in oneof Italys most fruitful districts, and its nearness to a great citywhich for 3000 years it has never ceased to threaten with de-struction, have helped to make Vesuvius a subject of perennialinterest to the scientist and nature-lover alike. The original Vesuvius line is a cable railway, which wasbuilt in 1880 by a Roman banking house, but which for sometime has been owned by Thomas Cook & Sons, the well-known New Vesuvius Ry. | 111 | 11 | | | Electric Street Ry. (Naples-Resina) Circumvesuviana (Under Construction) Scale f,300,000 St„et BV. Journal MAP SHOWING PRESENT A
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