И. А. Курбасова Е. И. Силантьева

ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ
1. "Rail Zeppelin" ['zepslin] —«Цеппелин на рельсах»

2. "Flying Hamburger"—«Летящий гамбуржец»

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TEXT С. ELEVATED RAILWAYS
(1) At the end of the 19th century the street traffic in big towns became heavy because of the rapid develop­ment of public transport. After careful studies of the pro- blem some American cities decided that it would be cheaper to build elevated railways carried by high supports above the streets with busy road traffic. Although these elevated railways produced much noise they became popular because they saved people much time.

(2) The project of the "El" (a shortened form of "ele­vated railway") was put forward by Charles Harvey. The designer believed that his railway would be a convenient passenger transport in big cities. Indeed, the experiments with the newly-designed system were a success, and soon all the main parts of New York were linked by the elevat­ed railway. The cars were drawn along the track by means of a cable and attained a high speed.

(3) The "El" was so popular that at one time over one million passengers were travelling on it each day. In later years, however, the underground lines, buses and motor cars took away the traffic from the "El" railway and it had to be closed down.