Word: transaco
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...tires have been in use for nearly five years on a mile-long funicular railway that runs cars up and down Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Last week Montreal ordered rubber-tired rolling stock based on the Metro design for the 9½-mile subway it plans to build. Transaco, a French investment firm that is marketing the Metro system, recently signed technical contracts with Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro...
...figures that the extra speed will give it the capacity of five trains for the price of four. The trains are designed so that on existing subway systems they can share the right of way with older trains by straddling the steel rails on their own special track. But Transaco feels that the Métro system has its biggest future in entirely new transportation systems being planned in many of the world's growing cities, where authorities can start from scratch to design for the rubber-tired trains...
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