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Identifier: streetrailwayrev07amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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cent lease is that of 1.7 milesof single track of the Wisconsin Central, from its connec-tion with the Northern Pacific at Viaduct Junction throughRiver Forest to the Desplaines river. The rental for theselines is based upon the number of passengers carried, butthe minimum rental is that due for 2,000,000 passengers an-nually. For the other portions of the line not over privateright of way, tlie franchises are for periods of from 20 to 40years. The population (jf the towns lying west of West 48thstreet and served by the Sidimban Railroad is about 175,000,and the estimated minimum traffic of 5,500 passengers perday appears to be a very reasonable one. The companyproposes to run special funeral trains to the three large cem-eteries, Concordia, Waldheim aiul Forest Home, which arereached by its lines; a conservative estimate of the traffic tothese cemeteries is 1,000,000 passengers per year. The ter-ritory along the Desplaines river is very popidar for picnics 208 (jJticctS^aikciy-S^eV^^
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LINES OF THE SUBURBAN RAILROAD COMPANY. and the long suburban route and the loops will prove attract-ive for trolley parties. It is intended to run trains consisting of motor car and onetrailer at an average speed of 15 to 20 miles per hour on alo-minute headway during the busy hours, and a 30-minuteheadway the remainder of the day. The construction of the road was undertaken by the Sub-urban Construction Companj of New Jersey, which con-tracted with Naugle, Holcomb & Co., of Chicago. Thisfirm contracted to construct the track, overhead work, power

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