Identifier: electricrailway331909newy (find matches)
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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Mexico City Tramways—Cars Leaving the Postoffice with Mail Matter
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May I, 1909.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 815 corners it has been found possible to run double-truckcars everywhere. Within the past few years the physicaland sanitary conditions have been greatly improved inmany quarters by laying out wider streets, improving thesewerage system, and pumping pure water co the city froma spring 18 miles away. FEATURES OF THE TRAMWAY SYSTEM About two years ago Dr. F. S. Pearson, of New York,the pioneer electrical engineer, and of late well known byhis foreign enterprises, took over the control of the tram-way system from German interests, and began improve-ments. To-day it is fast approaching the high standardof service and equipment attained by the best Americanelectric railways. It has many distinctive features whichare not common in American systems. Among these feat-ures is, first, the fact that Americans are successfullyoperating a tramway system in a foreign country, dealingwith officials and employees who speak only Spanish, and speed within certai

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