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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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00, the amount required for 100 cars.As a consequence the cars on all the lines were greatly over-crowded and the passengers suffered great inconvenience. To remedy this evil and not make the provisions of theordinance so burdensome to the company a new ordinancehas been introduced into the council providing that on holi-days or at other times when a large number of cars isrequired, that a license of 25 cents a day shall be paid. Thiswill be more jiisl to the street railways and an enconrage-iiunl loj/ivi; ample facilities for llu- Irallic. 426 (^tuctif^oiUv^S^ylc^ INCLINE RAILWAY UP MT, TOM. Mt. Tom is the highest mountain of the Holyokc range,the summit lieing 1,2 iS ft. above sea level. From the topis an extensive view. On clear days the gilded dome of thestate house at Hartford, 35 miles distant, is plainly visible.The inclined railway which was opened for service on June26 is an addition to the extensive park, 600 acres, of theHolyoke Street Railway. The road was built by the Mt.
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MT. TOM RAILROAD. Tom Railroad Company, but this company has the sameofficers and, with one exception, the same directors as theformer, and the road will be leased to the Holyoke StreetRailway. The Mt. Tom company also has 365 acres inpark. The Holyoke company operates electric cars fromthe city to Mountain Park, as it is called, where connectionis made with the incline. Electric cars from Springfieldand the smaller towns in the contiguous territory make goodconnections with the Holyoke line. The road is operated on the balance system, but with two of steel, I i^ in. in diameter, composed of 6 strands of 20wires each; at the top it passes over an S-ft. sheave. Tele-phone wires connect with telephones in both cars in orderthat the motorman may operate them in unison. The twocars are named Rowland Thomas and Elizur Holyoke,after the commanders of two surveying parties which tra-dition says made surveys of the mountain about 1650. The cars were built by the Wason Manufacturing Com-pany o

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