The street railway review (1891) (14761539705)

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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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tistics furnished in the following tables. The figures quotedare those of the Municipal Bureau and are therefore official. Thesetables have been extracted from a report of this bureau for theyear 1903 and give briefly both the earnings and operating statisticsof the several traction companies in Buenos Aires operating bothelectric and horse traction. In making comparisons of the earnings of the different com- meet the requirements of a large brewery in bringing its productsto Buenos Aires. The brewery company considered it would beadvantageous to build its own means of transportation for the rea-son that it could handle its products much cheaper than by forward-ing them over the steam railroads on account of the high transpor-tation charges. This line will also operate a regular passengerservice. The projected construction of an underground electric railroadfrom the central plaza to the several railway terminals within thecity has long been discussed and a concession for this road has

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INTERIOR OF POWER STATION OF THE AI-l.CEMElNE ELEKTUICITACTS (.KSEILSc IIAIT, i IF lUIliNnS AlKKS panics it should be remembered that the figures given are in dollarsof the national currency of the Argentine Republic, one dollar beingequal to 42.72 cents American money. At the present time the total length of the electric lines may beconsidered as al>out 28 kilometers more than given in the table, thisbeing the length of the lines of the Metropolitan system which hasrecently Iwcn converted to electric traction. There is also an inter-urban line 25 kilometers long connecting the town of Quilmes withBuenos Aires, which is just liting put into operation, the preliminarytrial trips having recently been made. This interurban line isworthy of notice as the principal reason for its being built was to l)fcn granted hut owing to its having been uiulcrtaUcn by partieswhose financial standing was not of the highest they were unableto raise the necessary capital and in consequence Buenos Aires

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1891

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