Electric railway journal (1916) (14572329627)

Identifier: electricrailway481916newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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early thehabitual weapons of a certain type of unionist in whosegood faith it would be folly to place much trust. Norhas the threat of a general sympathetic strike in NewYork City served any other purpose than to show tothe citizens of the city how far their convenience wouldbe sacrificed to bolster up a deservedly losing cause. It is indeed fortunate for New York that the Inter-borough Rapid Transit Company, knowing the charac-ter of the unionists with whom it would have to deal,avoided all the evils that would have resulted therefromand assured a more amicable and a more nearly per-manent peace to its employees and itself by encourag-ing the men to form their own internal brotherhood.Fortunate, too, is it that the unions on the surfacelines saw fit to throw down the gauntlet as a result,for that course has without doubt secured for NewYork freedom from the unbridled domination of anoutside transportation union for many years to come. 524 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL LVol. XLVIII, No. 13
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SEVEN THROUGH TRACKS LEAVING TERMINAL YARD. VIEW TAKEN FROM POSITION B ON TRACK LAYOUT Eight-Story Interurban Terminal Building- and Tracks in Dallas, Tex. September 23, 1916) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 525 Dallas Railway Completes Seven-Track Interurban Terminal w By EDWARD T. MOORE Local Manager Dallas Street Railway and Lighting Properties HILE it is not the largest, either in height ortrack capacity, the recently completed inter-urban terminal in Dallas, Tex., is one of themost perfect structures of its kind in Americato-day. The builders have en-deavored to combine the bestfeatures of the terminals ofIndianapolis, Los Angeles,Columbus, Denver, Milwau-kee, Oakland, Springfield,Terre Haute and Hamilton,Ont., and profiting by the ex-perience and mistakes ofothers, they have succeeded inproducing a splendid inter-urban terminal. The four interurban linesentering Dallas use this ter-minal. These lines are theWaco division and the Corsi-cana division of the SouthernTraction Company, the