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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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overcome. On such aplan the combined city system can run a far greater num-ber of cars than at present, and can also give universaltransfers, thus making it possible for passengers to go anywhere they will throughout the city on the payment of asingle fare. Such a plan, however, cannot be carried outunless the entire system be operated by one motive powerand the cable done away with, for to obtain the greatestflexibility and ease of handling, uniformity of equipment 619 Traction Company. To the south of the Chicago CityRailway system is a quite extensive network owned bythree independent companies, the Calumet Electric StreetRailway Company owning one of the largest purely subur-ban systems in the world, the South Chicago City RailwayCompany, and the Chicago Electric Traction Company(formerly the Englewood & Chicago Electric Street Rail-way Company.) The track mileage owned by the eleven principal Chi-cago companies, the gross receipts of many of them, and STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.
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GALLERIES IN POWER STATION, METROPOLITAN WEST SIDE ELEVATED RAILWAY is an essential, in order to avoid traffic difficulties at con-gested points. By reference to the accompanying map of Chicago, itwill be seen that there are three large central transportationsystems in Chicago owned by the Chicago Union TractionCompany, the Chicago City Railway Company and thefive elevated railway companies together, while there arealso eight smaller properties, which are all, in reality, feed-ers to the three large systems just named, or to each other.The Chicago Union Traction Company is a consolidation,recently effected, of the North Chicago Street RailroadCompany and the West Chicago Street Railroad Com-pany, the former operating the lines north of the ChicagoRiver and the latter those to the west, and both reachingthe congested district near the lake front. Seven of the outlying feeder systems formerly more orless independent of the North and West Side systems haverecently been consolidated into

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