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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
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ee of the United StatesChamber of Commerce, which is holding a series of hear-ings in regard to the general electric railway situation,is planning to send out to all local chambers of commercea questionnaire on the subject. The purpose is to havethese bodies give their views in regard to electric rail-way franchises, operating economies, taxes, the publicinterest in good transportation and the price situation.General information along these lines, as brought out bywitnesses at the first two hearings before the commit-tee, has been published in Electric Railway Jour-nal of May 3, 10 and 31 and in this issue. June 7, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 1101 Rehabilitation of French Tramways Condition of Those In and Near the War Zone Described by an Eye-Witness—Many Destroyed andAll French Tramways in Poor Physical Condition—Extension of Credit by AmericanManufacturers Necessary If Sales for Renewing Properties Are to Be Made By DANIEL T. PIERCE Recently with the American Red Cross, Paris
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WHY FRENCH ELECTRIC RAILWAYS CANNOT RESUME OPERATIONS—A TROLLEY BRIDGE IN THE DEVASTATED REGIONS BLOWNUP AS THE GERMANS RETREATED IN OCTOBER THROUGHOUTthe strip of ter-ritory, extend-ing from Ostend toNancy, which consti-tutes the devastatedregion of Belgium andFrance, there is to beobserved almost totaldestruction of elec-tric railways, includ-ing track, structuresand rolling stock. InYpres everything isdestroyed. It is one of those cities which now consist of only a few wallsand is not to be rebuilt, if we can believe the reports asto the determination of the Belgian government. Lilleand Valenciennes are next encountered. Lille was a bigindustrial city and had several lines of electric railway,all of which were abandoned during the long period ofGerman occupation, largely on account of the scarcityof coal. The scarcity was even more severe immediatelyafter the armistice. People who are freezing can getalong without even electric lights and railways. In Jan-uary the track was in de

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