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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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in a block between staff instrumentsat one time, which, as we have pointed out before, is reallythe only sure preventive of rear-end collisions, but whichis a practice which many interurban roads would have dif-ficulty in adopting without increasing the present numberof turnouts, Nevertheless, with so large a per cent of thecollisions, rear-end collisions, this increasing of the num-ber of turnouts is certainly a matter worth consideringwhen a road is investing money in improvements. Dfxember 6, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 921 The Concord & Manchester Branch of the Boston& Maine Railroad Electrical transportation has shown such remarkableprogress, particularly in the last ten years, that the large flexible street railroad, on the other hand, is so toextend its lines as to be able to carry a passenger from hisown doorway to practically any destination he may select.The combination of the two ideas is the ideal of modernrailway practice, and its most convenient and economical
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THREE-CAR TRAIN steam railroads have been forced to give serious consider-ation to all matters of electrical development. It was atfirst thought that the steam roads would be threatened bya new and dangerous sort of competition. Up to the pres-ent, however, this has proved to beonly for local traffic, and it is aquestion with the leading steamrailroad managers whether thisloss has not been more than coun-terbalanced in most cases by theeffect of the electric railways asfeeders to the main lines. In NewEngland the steam railroad com-panies adopted a somewhat differ-ent course in dealing with the sub-ject of electric lines in their terri-tory than in other parts of thecountry. The New York, NewHaven & Hartford RailroadCompany purchased control of thelocal railway systems at certainstrategic points along its route, asat Meriden and Stamford, and hasalso equipped with electricitysome of its branch lines. TheBoston & Maine Railroad Com-pany has also entered the electricrailway fiel

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