Electric railway review (1906) (14574072109)

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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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stated that the attachments necessary to afford theseresults can be installed on cars already operating for less than$5.00 per car for labor and material. The installation doesnot require any extra wires in the train line. On roads con-templating new equipment it can easily be installed at thetime cars are wired. A number of cars on the Metropolitan West Side ElevatedRailway are equipped with these devices, which are operatingsatisfactorily. On the Saturday before Christmas, December 21. the linesof the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York City,carried 1,649,752 passengers. Of these 961,114 were carried onthe elevated lines and 688,63S on the subway division. January 11, 1908. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 41 TICKET METHODS OF THE ATLANTIC CITY & SHORERAILROAD. BY S. S. NKKI, (1KNKHAI. SI IKHI NTKXDE.NT. The Atlantic City & Shore Railroad, of Atlantic City,N. .T., has recently instituted on its Ocean City division anumber of new ticket methods, which may be of interest, and
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Atlantic City & Shore Railroad—Map of System. of which we should appreciate criticisms from any memberof the street railway fraternity. The Atlantic City & Shore Railroad at present consists ofthree divisions: First, the Central Passenger Railway, com-prising a loop in Atlantic City, on Virginia, Adriatic, and SouthCarolina avenues, touching the Boardwalk on the first andlast named avenues; second, the Atlantic Avenue & Long-port division, between Inlet and Longport, with a boat lineoperating between Longport and Ocean City; third, the OceanCity division, a high-speed line between Atlantic City andOcean City, which is operated in various parts by the thirdrail, catenary and ordinary overhead conductors. On August 25, 1906. the last named division was openedfor traffic betw-een Atlantic City and Somers Point, and thefollowing 5-cent fare zones were established:SOUTHBOUND. Atlantic City to Pleasantville Zone No. 1 Pleasantville to Lin wood Zone No. 2 Lin wood to Somers Poi

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