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	Oddities - MEIGS ELEVATED RAILWAY
		The road is not a model, but a full-sized elevated railroad in every respect.
		The engineer is on an elevated platform in the front part of the engine, the fireman being at the rear end.
		As an elevated road in cities, the permanent structure presents far less obstruction to light and air than the usual form.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/odmeig.Html (1806 words)

	Definition of Railway from dictionary.net
		Gravity railway, a railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines.
		Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.
		Railway spine (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents.
	www.dictionary.net /railway (372 words)

	Dynamic Response of Elevated High-Speed Railway
		The study of the dynamic response of the elevated railway for the high-speed train in the Taiwan area at the preliminary design stage is presented.
		Two types of the elevated reinforced concrete railway, they being the simple-span and the three-equal-span box girders supported on piers; three types of the high-speed train, namely the French T.G.V., the German I.C.E., and the Japanese S.K.S.; and the maximum operation speed 350 km/h are under investigation.
		The influence line of any dynamic response (also called the dynamic influence line) of the elevated railway subjected to the high-speed train, considered as a series of the moving loads, is calculated by the mode-superposition method.
	www.pubs.asce.org /WWWdisplay.cgi?0001198 (149 words)

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		Elevated railway proponents had advanced ambitious plans for elevated railways to cover the downtown districts.
		The Boston Elevated Railway Company was to be privately owned and was delegated the responsibility of building a network of various suburban elevated railway lines.
		On December 9, 1897, under the supervision of the Transit Commission, a lease was entered into with the West End Street Railway by which the property of that company was leased to the Boston Elevated Railway Company for a term of twenty-four years, eight months and nine days from October 1, 1897.
	www.mbta.com /WorkArea/?id=962 (573 words)

	Rapid transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the UK, elevated systems are generally classified as light railways such as the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in east London - although not all British light railways are elevated.
		Elevated railways were a popular way to build mass transit systems in cities around the turn of the twentieth century, but they have fallen out of favour; and many elevated lines were later demolished, being replaced by subways or buses.
		The first underground railway in continental Europe was the Tünel, an underground 573-meter funicular between the quarters of Beyoğlu and Galata in the European part of Istanbul, completed in 1875 by French engineers on behalf of the Ottoman Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elevated_railway (3822 words)

	Forney Locomotive at the Forney Museum
		The extensive use of this type engine was on elevated railways such as the New York Elevated Railway, Brooklyn Elevated, and the Chicago Elevated.
		Prior to elevated railways, surface railcars were drawn by horses.
		Steam powered engines on the elevated railways lasted only a few years as they were replaced by the new electric powered engines.
	www.forneymuseum.com /ForneyLocomotive.htm (158 words)

	New York Elevated Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		At that time, New York's elevated railways were powered by steam engines, albeit much smaller than on the South Park, so the South Park’s Mason-Bogies would not be dragging around a string of former electric traction cars.
		The New York Elevated Railroad Company was born 27 October 1872, as a reorganization of the bankrupt West Side Patented Elevated Railway Company, the first attempt anywhere at building an elevated rapid transit line.
		The old charters of these firms were thereby reconfirmed by the RTC, which also gave them permission to construct and expand their lines on the West Side, and to build new lines on the East Side along 2nd and 3rd Avenues, all of which were to extend to the Harlem River.
	www.ironhorse129.com /rollingstock/CandS/dsp-passenger/nyelrail1.htm (1131 words)

	The Progress of Elevated Railways.
		The New York Elevated Railway Company was organized in 1872, and during the summer of 1873 the road slowly crept up Greenwich street and Ninth avenue as far as 30th street.
		On the 20th of May, 1879, the Metropolitan and the New York Elevated Railways were leased to the Manhattan Company, thus bringing both roads under one direction.
		Of the favorable and unfavorable influence of these elevated roads upon property along their routes, and on the convenience and comfort of living in the city, it is not our purpose here to speak.
	home.mindspring.com /~railroadstories/sciam18791025 (1855 words)

	Railway - definition from Biology-Online.org
		Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the united states.
		In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: atmospheric railway, Elevated railway, etc. See Atmospheric, Elevated, etc. Cable railway.
		A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Railway (418 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey
		The iron towers of the elevated structure sat on bluestone and brick piers, which were supported by clusters of wooden piles.
		A contemporary magazine article says "The Greenwich Elevated Railway, which at first was a total failure as long as several stationary engines were used, moving the cars by means of a wire rope, has become a decided success since the employment of small locomotives, each pulling two or three quite long cars."
		We ourselves experienced this on a trial trip to which the editors of the various New York papers were invited, and as the seats are placed lengthwise, the whole editorial corps were thrown in a heap to the rear end of the car.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccnynj.html (7782 words)

	Clean Air Initiative: Asia - New elevated rail to be built (China Daily)
		The fast-speed railway line is also expected to raise the attractiveness of the new airport for tourists and passengers from the entire southern Chinese region, including Hong Kong and Macao, and to further integrate cities in the Pearl River Delta, Lu said yesterday.
		The elevated railway line, which consists of 12 stations, will connect the new airport with Guangzhou Eastern Railway Station, joining the province's advanced railway and metro networks.
		Construction of the railway project is expected to start before the end of the year.
	www.cleanairnet.org /caiasia/1412/article-58765.html (364 words)

	Railway Technology - Vancouver SkyTrain Light Rail Network - British Columbia, Canada
		Elevated concrete sections carry much of the track to avoid conflict with the road system.
		The 1,396m SkyTrain tunnel was opened by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1933 but reopened for its new use to coincide with the Expo 86 show.
		A mixture of underground and elevated railway include a 650m section of single line operation.
	www.railway-technology.com /projects/vancouver (1304 words)

	Beach Pneumatic : 20
		Among the railways in fl are the New York City and Northern from 155th St, the Jerome Park Railway, and the New Haven’s Harlem River branch from the joint station at Willis Ave.
		Their report was objected to by the railroad company’s lawyers on the ground that they were bound to assess separately the damages resulting from each cause of injury, and to limit those causes to the deprivation of light and air and the lessening of the ease of access to the premises.
		Manhattan Railway operated the elevated railway system in Manhattan and the Bronx until 1903, when the property was leased to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the company formed to operate the city subway that opened in 1904.
	www.columbia.edu /~brennan/beach/chapter20.html (9521 words)

	The Boston Street Railway Association Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Railway Association, a nonprofit educational organization, was founded in 1959 to publish, exhibit, and preserve materials and information relating to all forms of local and regional mass transit.
		Elevated Railway and its successor, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, for 35 years.
		Elevated Railway assigned 5706 to the Clarendon Hill Carhouse in
	members.aol.com /bsra5706 (1332 words)

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		The idea of the elevated railway came from the united efforts of D.M. Edgerton of St. Louis and Robert Gillham, both engineers and railroad builders.
		On March 22, 1887, the Inter-State Consolidated Rapid Transit Railway Company was formed by consolidating the Inter-State Rapid Transit Company, the Elevated Railway and Tunnel, the Riverview Railway and the Brighton Hill and Chelsea Park Railway.
		The street railway was the first Kansas City enterprise of real magnitude and importance in which Eastern capital was used and was the first elevated system ever constructed outside of New York.
	www.kckpl.lib.ks.us /kscoll/lochist/thennow/TN39.htm (842 words)

	Malden DSME Ltd - Elevated railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Club locomotive "MINX" an 0-6-0 tendered locomotive, based on a South Eastern and Chatham Railway built locomotive, she was built by by John and Ted Marks.
		An 0-6-0PT known as a Pannier Tank, is a type of steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of the boiler, in the manner of panniers.
		The elevated track is 1,620ft long with gradients of 1 in 120 and 1 in 80.
	www.malden-dsme.co.uk /newsite/ert.htm (1101 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: History - South Side "L" Chronology (1888-1947)
		The track is placed above the adjacent alley and as part of the agreement, the South Side Elevated must pave the alley below and replace their station houses with mezzanine facilities that allow cars to pass beneath.
		The work would be done in conjunction with the elevation of the Junction Railway's tracks, which had been required by a city council ordinance.
		The city's four "L" companies (the South Side Elevated Railroad, the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, the Chicago and Oak Park Elevated Railway and the Northwestern) form a "voluntary association" under the name of the Chicago Elevated Railways Collateral Trust (CER).
	www.chicago-l.org /history/chron_south.html (1894 words)

	America on the Move \| The 1890s-1920s: Transit Shapes the City
		By 1900 there were at least 17 separate street railway companies, four elevated companies, and a number of interurbans, each with their own stations, stops, equipment, and fares.
		In large part, it was the choices made by the transit owners that both centralized and decentralized urban development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Its place, both geographically and historically, was cemented in 1897 by the opening of the elevated Union Loop serving the city’s elevated railway companies.
	americanhistory.si.edu /onthemove/themes/story_45_1.html (930 words)

	2Bangkok.com - The Hopewell Project
		For the case of 24-billion baht Eastern Railway to the new airport (Bangsue - Makkasan - Hua Mark - NBIA) with a distance of 34 km, SRT is planning to hire a consultant with a budget of 335 million baht.
		The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) may not have to scrap the Hopewell mass transit project as it is still possible to construct the double-track elevated train from Bangsue to Rangsit by utilising the partly-finished groundwork, SRT chairman Veera Musikapong said yesterday.
		The discarded Hopewell elevated railway pillars may be used to expand the Bangkok electric train project, a senior official in charge of Bangkok traffic said yesterday.
	www.2bangkok.com /2bangkok/MassTransit/hopelate.shtml (12960 words)

	People's Daily Online -- China overcomes three major obstacles to build most elevated railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The three difficulties are frozen tundra, high altitude and plateau environmental protection, said Zhu Zhensheng, vice director of the Ministry of Railways office in charge of the new line.
		The 1,956-kilometer-long Qinghai-Tibet railway is the world's highest and longest plateau railroad and also the first railway connecting the Tibet Autonomous Region with other parts of China.
		The Chinese government is to build three more railway lines in Tibet as extensions of the newly-completed Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which would link the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, with Nyingchi to the east, and Xigaze to the west, while the third will link Xigaze with Yadong, a major trading town on the China-India border.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200607/01/eng20060701_278982.html (563 words)

	Railways of Britain - A Bravenet.com Hosted Site
		The Railway was well used but with increasing competition from Trams, cars and buses, it was wound up and closed in 1957 being demolished by 1958.
		One of the earliest ideas put forward was for a freight railway to run over the street with warehouses situated below, but as the resident engineer of the time wanted to expand the docks and the railway would have made it more expensive he refused the idea.
		Maintenance of the railway was more costly than that of a conventional railway due to the maintenance of the supports and all other accessories required.
	railwaysofbritain.bravehost.com /LOR.html (1042 words)

	RTWP Home Page
		.....provides free articles about railways, using the UK railway system as the base technology with more articles and information about other systems, like the US, as appropriate.
		Diagrams like this one are provided throughout the articles to show sections of infrastructure, plans of stations, railway signs, signals, features and how equipment works.
		This diagram is an sample schematic of the pneumatic auxiliary equipment on a train and is described fully in an article on this site here.
	www.railway-technical.com (299 words)

	Mass Moments: Last Elevated Train Runs in Boston
		Numerous proposals were floated for different types of elevated railway technology, most of it untried and unproven.
		Beginning in the mid-1960s, the Orange Line El (the elevated railway that ran above the Washington Street corridor) was torn down and replaced by a subway line a quarter mile away.
		The last section of elevated railway infrastructure was scheduled for demolition in June of 2004.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=185 (956 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: History - Lake Street ''L'' Chronology (1888-1924)
		Also approved are franchises for the construction of a downtown loop using a back alley route and a westward extension of the line from 40th Avenue to 52nd Avenue in newly annexed territory from the Town of Cicero.
		A clause stipulates that should any of the authorized lines be leased to an existing Chicago elevated whose tracks terminate at the Chicago-Cicero border (obviously referring to the Lake Street Elevated), a through fare of five cents be charged to any point on Wabash Avenue north of Van Buren Street.
		The express trains operate to and from the Loop via the Lake Street Elevated, Lombard, Randolph, Cuyler, Harrison, and the Suburban Railroad's streetcar trackage (72nd Avenue, 13th Street, Hannah Avenue).
	www.chicago-l.org /history/chron_lake.html (2489 words)

	Port Cities: - The Dockers Umbrella
		It was the world's first electric powered elevated railway, which meant it ran on tracks raised above the ground and was seen as the shape of things to come.
		The scheme was criticised by the dock engineer Jesse Hartley who was developing plans for additional docks and the construction of the railway would have made his proposals more costly.
		The compulsory purchasing powers given to the railway company by Parliament gave it considerable weight and the MDHB saw this as a chance to buy land for its own improvements at a better rate than the market value would otherwise allow.
	www.mersey-gateway.org /server.php?show=ConNarrative.17 (444 words)

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