Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
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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. An tin S. I latch, ol Detroit; Ri her Brani Municipality, by i William I 1 he Joint I ■■ of (■■■• and I hiSignal Sj olgraph and tided to thi :■ II I. h pi•11 and Po old the Richmond Pa PORTLAND ORE. 1 RAILWAY COMPANYSEXTENSIONS. The new franchise applied For by the Portland (Ore.) Railwaj Co., will, if grained, give that company rights on about to1 j milesof -ireet not now occupied by ii- line-; it now hold- franchises onabout 1, mile- of street. If the ordinance graining these franchisesgo through the corncil without delay, it will probably take two sea-on- to complete Hie extensions. Ihe expenses of building the tracks.111,1 providing the additional rolling -lock necessary to operate allthe line- would require a new investment of about $40,000. Otherextensions are in \ iew. 1 in most important change contemplated is the abandonment ofthe cable trestle to Portland Heights. Ihe proposed extension out-anli Si. to ihe heights will be just two blocks wesl of the present
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SYSTEM I THE PORTLAND RAILWAY CO. line. I will al-o g., about half a mile farther than the present line,reaching the \ cry lop of the hill. The proposal fot .1 South Portland extension is merely a renewalof ihe application that was presented two years ago for advancemet Hi line passing out Fifth St. In North Portland a Iran on;.In (or Four blocks on I I ,ni Si., 1 del lo c id in in. .in lines of the company and facilitate their operation, (hese 1 iin Portland Height Franchise arc the only one- applied Side.On tl 1 idi a Franchise is sought for a street railway from oou with tin Vancouvet inn, at Russell Si., thence west ami north a li lam i about • ) miles. Another branch 1- pro- ,1,1101, ,,i Broadway with the Vancouver line, east 10 jjd and north to Stanton, 1 di lance of about 11 ! mil From ol Bt idi St. and Union Ave., when- the Vancouver ne tut .,,,,,111 projected < - 1,1,11 I east 1,, (*enth Si,, ft I,,, i, poinl 11 , ■ an 1 wo branchi , there dl be about .! • a. Hi, , l

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