Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Street or Horsepower Railways, Their Location, Construction and Management With General Plans and Rules for Their Organization and Operation: Together With Examinations as to Their Comparative Advantages Over the Omnibus System; And Inquiries as to Their Value for Investment; Including Copies of Municipal Ordinances Relating Thereto Having received numerous enquiries from various parts of the United States and Europe, in relation to the construction and general operation of Street Rail ways, I have been induced to publish the following pages, which I trust will be found practically useful to the Engineer, Contractor, Shareholder, and Director of Street Railways, as well as to the Authorities of those Cities whose streets are about to be occupied by them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.