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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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er ser-vice was in excess of $80,000, so that on its present showingthe new power station and its distribution will show a net sav-ing of nearly $50,000 per annum. Mention of the fact has been made that the Toledo Urban &Interurban Company supplies hot-water heat to customers inFindlay. The revenue from this source pays more than one-half the entire station fuel bill. Mr. Darrow, the constructing engineer, has also recentlybuilt a plant for the Cincinnati & Columbus Traction Companyalong similar lines, which is doing equally as well. He hasalso built three other plants during the past few years. Theyare producing current at the switchboard for $.0075 per kw-hour, or less, although they are all of medium size. »++ The Havana Central Railway, of which G. F. Greenwood isthe general manager, has just secured the concession for anelectric railway from Guines to Cienfuegos and from Guinesto Batabano. 950 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. THE SYSTEM OF THE HUDSON COMPANIES (Vol. XXVI. No. 22.
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In the Oct. 14 issue of the Street Railway Journal anaccount was given of the opening on Sept. 29 of one of thetunnels between Hoboken and Morton Street of the HudsonCompanies. Since that event the plans of the company for anextensive surface railway system in Jersey City and the equip-ment of a high-speed electric line between the present Penn-sylvania Railroad terminal in Jersey City and Newark havebeen made public. The accompanying map shows the completesystem as now decided upon. In this map the tunnel systems under the river are indicatedby heavy black lines. As will be seen, the system forms a Y-shaped line from Thirty-Third Street, Manhattan, down SixthAvenue, across the Hudson River to Hoboken, then back fromJersey City to the corner of Cortlandt and Church Streets, withspurs on Ninth Street, Manhattan, and to the Lackawanna andJersey Central stations on the New Jersey shore. At the Cort-landt Street station the company has secured two blocks on thewest side of Church Street b

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