Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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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very rapid, from the fact thatin many of the smaller towns, horse car lineshave never been built, and those same places arenow enjoying rapid transit, without having wrestled withthe bobtail and mule bell. Towns of a few thousandinhabitants are supplied with the latest improved electriccars, well built tracks, fine road beds, and in some placeslacking nothing in elegance and management, except therequired number of people to ride and thus be able to The East Side, or that portion of the city east of theWillamette River, formerly known as East Portland andAlbina, but now included in the city limits of Portland,dates its awakening from the establishment about four3ears ago of the car lines of the Willamette Bridge Rail-way Company. The equipment consisted of three horsecars, that ran from the foot of Morrison street across theMorrison street bridge into East Portland, a distance ofabout one mile, and was later on increased to one morecar, making four in all. The following summer a steam
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STEEL KAILK meet thepay roll and expense account at the end of themonth; and even these are fast increasing in numbers,with the rapid growth of the far west. Portland, Oregon, is no doubt better equipped withelectric street railways than any citj- on the Pacific Coast,in fact, than any city west of Denver, her mileage reach-ing lOO miles and with equipments of the latest and mostimproved patterns. The City and Suburban Railway Company controlsabout 55 miles, 40 of them being electric and 15 steam.This line operates from Third and Morrison streets, inPortland, and diverges to eleven different points, thelongest being nine miles from this center. Each electriccar, sixty-five in all, passes this point at intervals duringthe day, and the Companys office being located here, thesupervision by the management is complete. >IORY USED BY CITY AND riUBURBAX LINES, ruRTLAXD, ORE. motor line two miles long was built, connecting with thehorse cars for Portland. In three years this motor linehas

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