The Street railway journal (1902) (14575132819)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo191902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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- rural siding at which delivery is mack, thus doing awaywith all transfer of freight from steam to electric cars. The road has 10.5 miles of main line and 1.5 miles ofsiding. Its southern terminus is at Harvard, on the Chi-cago & Northwestern Railroad, near the northern borderof Illinois. This division of the Northwestern road formsits main line between Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis.Running north from Harvard 8.5 miles the electric roadcrosses the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad andthen runs 2 miles northeast to the southern edge of Lake 722 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIX. No. 23. Geneva, one of Wisconsins choicest lakes and an aristo-cratic summer resort. Out of a total yearly business ofabont $20,000 fully one-third, or $6,666, is income fromfreight. The population along the line is as follows: Harvard 2,500 Big Foot Prairie 100 Walworth 600 Fontana, on Lake (ieneva 300 Farmers, tributary to hue 500 Total population 4,000 or about 380 people per mile of track.
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panys own yards. In summer, refrigerator cars are runtwice a week from the Chicago & Northwestern Railroadfor the benefit of the three creameries on and near the lineof the electric road. This saves these creameries a long haulin the hot sun to the steam roads. Last winter 3000 tons ofice were hauled from Lake Geneva for local use along theroad. The company receives $500 per year for haulingmail two trips each way the entire length of the road. AfterJune 1, 1902, an aditional service of one trip each way overthe 2 miles between Walworth and Lake Geneva will begiven. Live stock shipments form an important part of the com-panys freight business and account for thelarge number of carload lots of freight de-livered to the steam roads. When the roadwas first built the only stearn road con-nection it had was with the Chicago & North-western Railroad at Harvard, its southernterminus. Later the Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Paul Railroad built through Walworth.This town had formerly bee