Identifier: electricrailway421913newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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. Onthese platforms the floats were built, composed of papier-mache, tinsel, plaster of paris and paper shapes. Thesedesigns were built onto the floats and artistically painted,and colored lights and bulbs of different shapes were usedto carry out the designs. The lights varied from 700 to Pansy and Diamond/ and many other equally beautifulgroups. The motorman on all floats was concealed in the figurein the front of the car, which had small openings coveredwith white scrim, through which he could see but not beseen. The sides of the cars were draped close to the trackwith painted designs, and the only part of the car itselfthat could be seen was the end of the trolley pole, whichextended out of the rear end of the float. Each car hadtwo pages, dressed in red costumes, one to watch the trol-ley and the other to give orders to the motorman, as hecould see only straight ahead. Tn many cases mirror lamps were used to throw light tobring out the design, but as the brilliant coloring cannot
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Portland Rose Carnival—Trolley Floats Representing Thistle and Turquoise and Rose and Sapphire 1200 lamps on each float, and the floats cost from $1,000 to$2,000 each. Quite a number of the floats had movable parts, whichwere belted up from the axle. On float No. 12, Thistleand Turquoise, a rose-entwined swing was in the circlewith a little girl seated in it. This swing was connected tothe birds mouth by a cord of roses, and as the swing movedback and forth the birds head would move as if pullingthe swing, and its beak would open and shut. On float No.4, Rose and Onyx, there were revolving lights of differ-ent colors on a corkscrew shape behind the tinsel in the be reproduced in the photographs they hardly do justice tothis very beautiful and artistic pageant. A scheme of electric underground railways for Milanis now in progress, while similar plans for Genoa andNaples are also about to be adopted. At Genoa it isproposed to run a 6.4-mile d.c. line from Sampierdarenato emerge at Qua

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