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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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electric railway, possessing but few features ofmore than ordinary engineering interest. The road rinis partly on the surface and partly on trestle work,following the topography of the grounds. It is built on a right ofway seven miles long, giving about fourteen miles of track. Theright of way is to he fenced and stops are made only at regular sta-tions. Its two terminals are located inside the grounds, respectivelyeast and west of the Lindcll or main entrance. The two terminalsare about 600 ft. apart, leaving a broad avenue between, so that theroad does not deface the fine central view of the main picture.VoT a considerable portion of its route the Intramural skirts theenclosure of the E.xposition. For about two miles of its course itruns directly through the heart of one of the most interesting por-tions of the Fair grounds. For about one mile it runs throughthe fine oak forest of Forest Park. The rails are 65-lb. The roadis A. S. C

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