. The Street railway journal . overnment is the passengerservice of the Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Company, whichoperates more than eighteen miles of car track. * * * Thecompany is extending its lines constantly and expects to attainthe Pali, the top of Tantalus and Moanalua within the nexttwo years, as well as to gridiron the city with its rails. * * *It has been only two years since Honolulans were given theprivilege of riding in electric cars. The old horse and mulesystem held a monopoly of the streets that could not legally beset aside for a long time. Honolulu was probably the last Ame
. The Street railway journal . overnment is the passengerservice of the Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Company, whichoperates more than eighteen miles of car track. * * * Thecompany is extending its lines constantly and expects to attainthe Pali, the top of Tantalus and Moanalua within the nexttwo years, as well as to gridiron the city with its rails. * * *It has been only two years since Honolulans were given theprivilege of riding in electric cars. The old horse and mulesystem held a monopoly of the streets that could not legally beset aside for a long time. Honolulu was probably the last Amer-ican community of any size to adopt electricity as a means ofrapid street transit, and when it did modernize itself in thisparticular there were hardly enough cars to carry people.—Paradise of the Pacific. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 17. ROADBED CONSTRUCTION FOR WORLDS FAIR INTRAMURALRAILWAY Work on the construction of the intramural railway at theWorlds Fair grounds in St. Louis has progressed sufficiently. RAILWAY BRIDGE CROSSING RAVINE still in progress. Work is being pushed on the trestle whichwill carry the road down Government Hill, close to the easternfence. This trestle will be 2100 ft. long, and will be built onpiling of heavy double-deck structures, 30 ft. high. A trussbridge, which will carry the road over the Worlds Fair ter-minal surface tracks, is now beingerected. This bridge has a length of112 ft., consisting of two 56-ft. spans. The intramural tracks will be usedfor transporting building material andexhibits during the pre-expositionperiod, and they are now used to alimited extent for this purpose, asshown in the cuts. The tracksthroughout are standard gage, 4 ins., which is the gage of both theintramural and steam railway equip-ment. The construction of the entireline will be heavy enough to run thelargest switch engine over it withoutdanger, and steam cars may behandled on the tracks of the intram-ural road at all times. Installation of
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