. The Street railway journal . loitation practicable. The Loubat way is estimated to costabout $5,400 or $G,000 per mile, whichmaybe distributed as follows:— Wood, Iron and gravel $4, Labor Miscellaneous expenses Of course these figures may be increased,and it is claimed may be slightly loweredin some cases. M. Delonchat, who wasfor a long time chief engineer of a Parisomnibus company, and who sought tobring every possible method of economicalconstruction into the management of streetrailways, put the actual cost of these roads,with the rails, at $3,800 per mile, usingrai
. The Street railway journal . loitation practicable. The Loubat way is estimated to costabout $5,400 or $G,000 per mile, whichmaybe distributed as follows:— Wood, Iron and gravel $4, Labor Miscellaneous expenses Of course these figures may be increased,and it is claimed may be slightly loweredin some cases. M. Delonchat, who wasfor a long time chief engineer of a Parisomnibus company, and who sought tobring every possible method of economicalconstruction into the management of streetrailways, put the actual cost of these roads,with the rails, at $3,800 per mile, usingrails weighing 40 lbs. to the yard, and $470per year as the total cost of new material,care, wear and tear and running of theroad. The figures given apply to a partof the line from the Place de la Con-corde, which is included between the for-tifications of Bond Point de Boulogne,where the circulation is most expenses are considered very smallabroad, and it would be difficult to reduce THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 58T. FIG. 3. them to any kind of a standard for Ameri-can roads, inasmuch as the whole systemis different and the cost of labor is entirelydisproportionate between the two Bazaine system is said to cost about$10,000 per mile. By diminishing theweight of the rails for lines with smalltraffic, this figure, it is said, may bebrought down as low as $7,500. In England the tramways in the largecities cost very much more, when we com-pare their price, with those of French lines,without speaking of those in London,whose price, it is said, runs up as high as$70,000 per mile. The tramways in Glas-gow were valued, a few years ago, at $35,-000 per mile. Some of the lines whichhave been constructed in London havebeen built with the greatest care, and thehigh expenses which are attached to themare in part attributable to the high pricewhich they were obliged to pay for thepaving for the street on either side of theirroad, and which they were obliged to main-tain
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