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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
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ween Buffalo and Niagara Falls was limited. All inall, however, it appears that the new line has developednew business for the company. The principal factors, of course, in the success of thenew line were the high running speed, permitting arunning time of one hour between Main and CourtStreets, Buffalo, and the Terminal Station at AmericanFalls, Niagara Falls; the frequency of the service; andthe wonderful scenic features of the route. The numberof stops between terminals was reduced to a minimum,there being a half dozen or less required stops and fivesignal stops. Thirty-minute service last summer consisted of two-car trains, which seldom left either terminal city withunfilled seats. As winter came on the operation of two-car trains was confined to the busy periods of the day.W. J. Whiteside, traffic agent of the railway, statesthat it is planned to operate three-car trains duringthe coming summer and schedules are being revised ac-cordingly. The general plan is to utilize three-car
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HICII-SPEEB LINE TRAIN LOADING AT BUFFALO Railway Journal for July 13 and Aug. 10, 1918. Dur-ing the year cars have been regularly operated over theline on a thirty-minute headway. The business which the new line has gathered maybe considered all its own, because the old Niagara Fallsline of the company, which leaves Buffalo by way ofNiagara Street and Military Road, has held up itstraffic fairly well. Comparisons are, however, difficultto make because the winter of 1917-1918 was a severeone for the older line, and higher fares were also in-augurated during that season. Comparisons are com-plicated farther by the fact that the war situation andthe steps taken by the government to curtail passengertraffic on the steam roads operated partly to reduce the1918 summer traffic between Buffalo and Niagara Fallson the new line because the tourist traffic was curtailed.On the other hand, a certain advantage accrued to the trains on Sundays, holidays and other days of heavytraffic and two-car t

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