Identifier: streetrailwayrev06amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1896 (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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- FakhryPacha, Minister of Public Works, the diplomatic repre- business section of the city at the Opera Square, thencepassing the foot of the ■ Mouskee, that street of storesand bazaars dear to the tourist heart I and pocket I onup the long rising Mehemet Ali avenue to the foot ofthe Citadel, was opened for traffic. This section is the only one opened so tar. and hasproved remarkably renumerative; the native populationeven more than European patronizing the line exten-sively. Other train crews are being drilled, and the net-work of lines which runs through and about the city toall points of traffic importance will shortly be in use.
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IN.^UGlKATlON OF THE TROLLEY SYSTEM A I CAIRO, EGVll. sentatives of Belgium, whose countrjmen were the for-tunate contractors, and a host of picturesque personalitiesof various nations had been invited to make the firsttrip, and afterwards celebrate it by speeches and a ban-quet. The concession to construct the line was granted onDecember 5, 1894, and a condition of the grant was itscompletion within two years after that date. Workcommenced in the following spring, and on the first ofAugust last, the first trial trip was made with such sat-isfactory results that two weeks afterwards a portion ofthe double line, running from the Boulac district (theold port of Cairo on the Nile) across the most central The station capacity is 900-horse-povver, distributedbetween three condensing Sulzer engines, running 120revolutions per minute. The boilers are equipped withfuel economizers. The boilers were furnished b\ thetirm of Tosi. of Milan, Ital). Condensing water is fur-nished from the Nile by

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