. The street railway review . treet car in Knoxville, Tenn., was tied up forone entire day last month on account of an abnormalrise in the creek. The water in the Knoxville StreetRailway Companys power house was fully eight feetdeep. 288 (^iyicct!f^aiWay9^A/^^ RAPID TRANSIT IN A FLUME. ANOTHER BIG ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE. While the tirst cost for construction was hif^h. doubt-less the cheapest operating expense in the country forstrictly rapid transit transportation, is that describedin the San Francisco Journal of Electricity. A lumbercompany in Fresno county, California, has built a lumberHume t
. The street railway review . treet car in Knoxville, Tenn., was tied up forone entire day last month on account of an abnormalrise in the creek. The water in the Knoxville StreetRailway Companys power house was fully eight feetdeep. 288 (^iyicct!f^aiWay9^A/^^ RAPID TRANSIT IN A FLUME. ANOTHER BIG ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE. While the tirst cost for construction was hif^h. doubt-less the cheapest operating expense in the country forstrictly rapid transit transportation, is that describedin the San Francisco Journal of Electricity. A lumbercompany in Fresno county, California, has built a lumberHume tifty-two miles long, which in places has a gradeof 23 per cent, and which, as shown in our illustrationcrosses the Kings river on a suspension bridge 451 feetlong. The bridge is built of Roebling cables. TheHume is V-shaped, and in addition to carrying lumber isutilized for the transportation of passengers -one way—for, like the road to ruin in the old temperance books,the line onl\- runs one way. and that down. The boat in. srSIENSION BRIDGE FOR FLUME. which the passengers travel, or shoot, is a V-shapedbox about sixteen feet long and which is roughlyknocked together with boards, since it is • good forone trip only. The front end is left off as the velocitj-of the water is such that it will not run back into theboat. A plank is placed along the bottom, on whichthe passengers rest their feet while sitting single file oncross seats. When all is ready the spikes by which theboat is held while loading are pulled out and away itgoes on its fifty-two miles journey, in some cases attain-ing the terrific velocity of seventy or more miles perhour. For the road which has a long steep hill with plent\-of water at the top and bottom, this kind of a -chutewould make an admirable attraction for people who loveexcitement. The last of the three great electric locomotives forthe operation of all trains on the main line of the Balti-more and Ohio railway, has been shipped from theSchenectad
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