Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (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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k of the gorge,to Lewiston, is owned by the Niagara Gorge Railroad Co. Thi;difficult and interesting piece of track construction was describedin detail in the Review for January, 1900. The company now owns 21 motor cars and 25 trailers, all of Brillmake, and the road has been thoroughly overhauled in anticipationof a heavy traffic during this summer. Long term traffic agree-ments have recently been made with the International TractionCo. for terminal facilities in the city of Niagara Falls, N. Y., givingthe Gorge road connection with other interurban roads convergingon Main St. of that city. Owing to the nature of the debris slope and irregular ledges since it was first opened, and unless all signs fail, will return a sat-isfactory income to its owners during the forthcoming season. We quote from a letter of the engineer, Mr. Geo. A. Ricker,as follows: One of the greatest difficulties the company has had to contendwith in establishing this line, has teen the securing of suitable foot-
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THE ui.Ki.K K i.JiI,ings for the necessary bridges. The company has just completeda new steel trestle near Lewiston, the installation of which marksthe completion of the Niagara Gorge R. R. as originally planned.Since 1895 a timber structure has carried the tracks of the roadacross a short but deep ravine just north of and below the Lewis-ton escarpment. Excepting in the spring but little water flows

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