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Identifier: streetrailwayjo151899newy (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.
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em, which reaches a much larger area, is obvious. United as the Union Consolidated Traction system, theNorth and West Side lines form an immensely valuableproperty, which can be operated far more economicallytogether than under separate management, particularly onaccount of the possibility of running cars through from The Chicago Consolidated Traction Company was or-ganized early in 1899 as a consolidation of the following properties: EarningsGross fromReceipts Operation Chicago Electric Transit Company $278,574 $116,297 Chicago & Jefferson Urban Transit Co 44,821 12,470 Cicero & Proviso Street Railway Company. 226,722 72,853 Evanston Street Railway Company 17,097 4,474 North Chicago Electric Street Railway Co.. 330,266 161,986(Including the Chicago North Shore StreetRailway Company, operated under lease.) North Side Electric Street Railway Co 67,428 31,011 Ogden Street Railway Company 61,870 7,198 Totals Si.026,788 $406,292 All of these properties are located on the North and
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LAKE STREET POWER STATION, CHICAGO CONSOLIDATED TRACTION COMPANY North to West Sides and return, without the delays inci-dent to switchbacks or loops, by means of which a muchgreater number of cars can be forced through the con-gested district, as explained above. The Chicago City Railway Company has always had amonopoly of the through traffic between the great SouthSide district and the heart of the city, except for the com-petition of the South Side Elevated Railway Company,which has been partially nullified once or twice by the pur-chase of control by Chicago City interests. The ChicagoCity Railway Company was the first company east of SanFrancisco to adopt the cable system for the operation ofseveral of its through lines, and its financial success hasbeen phenomenal. It is to-day one of the most stronglyentrenched and valuable properties in the country. West Sides, and are feeders to the two great properties inthose sections, most of them in outlying territory. TheChicago & Je

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:657
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