Identifier: streetrailwayjo161900newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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FIG. 16.—CENTER POLE CONSTRUCTION IN PROVINCIAL CITY 932 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVI. No. 41.
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FIG. 18.—SIDE TROLLEY SIDE BRACKET CONSTRUCTION ON VINCENNES LINE tracks for a tramway, the iron pipe is required the entirelength. This is not a requirement in the provincial cities. The writer will try to give a general idea of the condi-tions imposed by the authorities for electric tramways.There is now no one general law on the subject, but theone proposed by MM. Blondel and Dubois in their admi-rable work on electric traction will no doubt be adopted inits main features. The installation of an electric tramway must be the sub-ject of two official examinations or enquetes, to use theexpressive French word; the first is called that of publicutility and the second refers to the underground and over-head electrical conductors. A preliminary project is sub-milted either to the Minister of Public Works, the Prefector the Mayor, depending upon whether the concession de-manded is national, depart-mental or communal, andthis must contain the fol-lowing: 1. The governmentalmap at 80,000

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