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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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angements will be made, itis said, with the Montreal Street Railway Company to runinto the center of the city. An Electric Road in a New Field. The Mousam River Railroad, which connects thetown of Sanford, Me., with the nearest freight station onthe Portland & Rochester Railroad, and extends to thetown of Springdale on that same road, marks a new depart-ure in electric railway economics in having a large freight,express, mail and baggage business, besides the regularpassenger travel. A short description of this road wasgiven in a recent issue, but through the kindness of Super-intendent E. K. Day we are enabled to present the follow-ing additional particulars: Sanford is a manufacturing town of about 5,000inhabitants, and is situated on the Mousam River, at adistance of about three miles from the nearest passengerstation on the steam road. The Sanford Plush Mills, theprincipal industry of the place, are about one and three-quarters miles from the freight station on the steam road.
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ELECTRIC FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE AT SANFORD, ME. All of the baggage, express and mail business of the townis handled by this road, using for this purpose trail carsattached to the regular closed motor cars. The freight and coal hauling is done by a specialelectric locomotive in ordinary freight cars, making adirect haul from the railroad junction to the point ofdelivery. All coal and merchandise is brought in and allshipping done in this manner. An idea of the amount ofbusiness done in this line may be gained from the factthat from February 28 last, when it commenced to haulfreight, to December 15, 23,586,377 lbs. had been handledin 1,332 freight cars, an average of nearly six cars andfifty tons per working day. This is certainly a remark-able showing, and opens up a new field for electric trans-portation in many sections where towns doing large busi-ness are situated at a distance from the railroad. Thepassenger traffic for the eight months from May 30 was111,725, with an average of eight

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