Identifier: streetrailway03amer (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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he unknown growth ofsuburban railway traffic. WHERE HORSES RIDE. WE are able to illustrate, this month, one of themost amusing features of rapid transit in theworld—a street car line upon which thehorses as well as passengers ride. The fortunate quad- prominence. Although the descensus is extremely facilus,the up trip is proportionately difficult. The car runs from6:30 a. m. to 11:30 p. m. The traffic on the line isgood, as the novelty of the affair attracts many strang-ers and much of the pleasure seeking populace ofDenver. A similar line is in operation at Ontario, California, butthe Denver line will attract the most attention from thefact that it is a city line.Text Appearing After Image:
WHERE HORSES RIDE. rupeds illustrated were photographed as they stand onevery trip down the grade of Thirty-fourth avenue,Denver. This line was built by Col. J. Cook, Jr., a live realestate man, in order to give direct communication withthe Welton Street Cable Line, from Mr. Cooks new addi-tion to Denver, Col. The line is about 1)^ miles long, and the grade variesfrom 2 to 5 per cent. As the entire line is on the grade.Col. Cook concluded that it was simply a waste of goodhorse power to have the animals walk down hill, and soarranged the little platform stock car to accommodate theequines in their descent. The car is built of ash, shorterthan the 16-foot box trailer, and runs on light 12-inchwheels. It is very light in weight. A gate at either endallows the horses to walk on to the car at one end andoff at the other. . The horses soon become used to theride and enjoy it hugely, smiling large expansive smilesfrequently, and sometimes bursting out in a horse laughwhen some fellow equine

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