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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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m Fordham to Williamsbridge. All these lines have been completed and are now in op-eration, covering about 60 miles of street. In addition tothe above, there have been built by the company lines ex-tending from West Farms to Westchester Village andUnionport; also from West Farms to Williamsbridge,South Mount Vernon and Mount Vernon; in the city ofMount Vernon, along Fifth Avenue to the city line, alongFourth .Avenue and Third Street to the city line at Pel-ham, and along North Fourth Avenue to the city line at October 5, 1901.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 48s l5roii.\villc. Extensions have also been built at Pelham,North Pelham, Pelham Manor, New Rochelle, and in thecity of New Rochelle to Hudson Park and Glen Island;along the Boston Post Road to the village of Larchmont, at i05tli Street, and an extension on Burnside Avenue fromJerome Avenue westerly to Aqueduct and Cedar Avenues,and thence to Morris Heights dock. It is intended in thenear future to build an extension fmm Olin .\venuc on
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VIHWS IN BRONX PARK and on North Street in said city, Rose Street, WebsterAvenue, Huguenot and Main Streets. These latter linescover about3omiles of street. TheUnion Kailwayfom))anyhas recently constructed an extension on Webster Avenuefrom Eordham to Melrose Avenue across the new viaduct Webster Avenue to the city line at Yonkers. The construc-tion of this line will give a double-track service betweenluist 129th Street and the city of Mount Vernon. We havealso laid out the construction of lines on St. Anns, Morrisand Boscobel Avenues. Our plans as to Sedgwick Avenue 486 STREET RAILWA\ JOURNAL. (Vol. XVJll. No. 14. and the line across the McCombs Dam Bridge have al-ready been noted aliove. There is also now under the con-trol of the Union Company the Yonkers system, with trans-fer points in the city of Mount Vernon, at the Harlem sta-tion, and also from Jerome Avenue to Yonkers. The linesin operation in the city of Yonkers measure about 20 miles.The Union Railway system also controls

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