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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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e of themclaiming to be the largest in the world, and three cottonpickeries. The water supply is obtained from artesianwells, twenty in number, ranging in depth from 200 to850 ft. The water is clear and exceptionally pure andhealthful. The pumping machinery is said to be the fin-est in the Southwest, and to have a capacity of 18,000,000gals, per day. The streets of the city are laid out in avery irregular manner, although they are generally verywide and straight. The principal streets are paved, thematerial used being principally vitrified brick. Woodenblock consisting of bois darc (Osage orange) are also ex-tensively used, and there are many graveled streets. Thesoil is generally sandy, making a good foundation for thestreet railway tracks. Houston City Street Railway Company. This company controls all the street railway lines ofthe city, embracing thirty-five miles of track, the most ofwhich was equipped with electric power three years ago. May, 1894.) THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 3T3
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3i4 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. X. No. 5. The lines are advantageously laid out, reaching over thesettled portion of the city and extending to the principalsuburbs, and the system is exceedingly well managed.One peculiarity of the system is that nearly every one of itsthirteen divisions forms a loop, and all center at a givenpoint at the corner of Travis and Prairie Streets, where arelocated the offices of the company, and by which all thecars pass. The track construction of the street railway lines inthe paved streets consists of forty-five pound T rail sup-ported on chairs. On the Houston Heights division athirty-five pound T rail is employed which is laid on 6x8in. stringers having lapped joints and held to gauge bytie rods placed four feet apart; the stringers rest on 2X10in. planks in place of ties, which in turn rest on a shellfoundation of three or four inches in thickness, while thetrack is ballasted with the same material. The shells for

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