Electric railway gazette (1895) (14736150506)

Identifier: electricrailwayg10newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway gazette
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: New York : (W.J. Johnston Co.)
Contributing Library: MIT Libraries
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he enterprise IsThomas Burnham, of Chicago, who owns largetracks of land In West Hammond and Burnham.The line will be started from the Indiana-Illinoisstate line, will run through West Hammond andliurnham, and will make connection with theCalumet Electric Railway at One Hundred andFifth or Ninety-fourth streets. By this route thetrip to the heart of Chicago can be made laan hour. Vol. X. No. 31. STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. SS9 BARMEN ELECTRIC BACK RAILWAY The cities of Barmen and Elberfeld, which oc-cupy prominent positions among German in-dustrial centers, possess attractive suburbs, butuntil recently the parks and resorts in theselocalities have been difWcult of access. The length to footplates bolted to the sleepers: whileat intervals of 50 or 60 yards two adjacent sleep-ers are firmly anchored to strong concrete foun-dations sunk deep into the earth. The adhesionrails average 30 feet in iensih. At the terminal stations cross transfer tables,worked by electric motors, move the cars, as
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CAK ON THE EAKMEN ELECTKIC RACK RAILWAY. neighboring hills made the trip to the resorts sotedious and fatiguing that they were not aspopular as they othervvise would have been. Fora long time a demand existed for a quick and in-expensive means of transit from the town centersto the outlying districts. At first proposals weremade for the construction of a gravity cable rail-way like that at Giessbach where a car at the topof the grade is weighted with water sufficiently todraw up an ascent a car connected to the sameendless rope. This plan was abandoned as wellas that which contemplated the introductloD oflocomotives. A plan for an electric rack railwaywas finally submitted by Siemens & Halske andit was accepted by the Barmen Mountain RailwayCompany. The line begins In the center of the town in alarge terminal station. By means of an ironbridge, 05 feet span and 30 feel wide, it crossesthe Berglsch-Milrklsche State Railway, thencepassing over the Kampstrasse on the level, itclimbs