Excerpt from Special Track Work for Electric Street Railways, Especially Referring to the Montreal and Toronto SystemsBesides electricity as used in the trolley system, other motive powers have been tried to take the place of the horse, such as gas and com pressed air motors, cables, electric conduits and storage batteries, but up to the present time, the trolley system has demonstrated its practical superiority over all others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.