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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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al to the distant suburb-anite in the way of shortened time of transit. The eliminationof stops is a serious question outside the city proper, and par-ticularly is this true within the zone of 5-cent fares on the trol-ley lines. It is safe to say that suburban development must befrom within the city outward, and that artificial restrictions ofsuburban population density based upon reduced service arebound to be of doubtful value from the standpoint of both thetraveling public and the transportation companies. 502 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. n. POWER HOUSE OF THE INDIANAPOLIS & CINCINNATITRACTION COMPANY A description was published in the Street Railway Journalfor Feb. 18 of the single-phase system of the Indianapolis & Cin-cinnati Traction Company. Single-phase operation is, however,not the only interesting feature of the installation, the generalengineering involved, and especially the equipment of the powerhouse, being worthy of careful attention. The selection of
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STANDARD CAR, RUSHVILLE LINE Sargent & Lundy as the consulting engineers made it certainthat the whole work of equipment and installation would bealong the most skilful lines of modern practice. Their latestwork fully sustains the high reputation of this firm. Someparticulars of the power station were published in the previousissue referred to, but in view of the interest which attaches tothis line, further information, which was not available at thetime of the previous description, is now published. Current for the operation of 120 miles of railway is sup-plied from a single power station. This is located in Rushville,Ind., about 40 miles from Indianapolis and about 80 miles fromthe other end of the completed line. The site is adjacent to theCincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway, with a connecting-track from that road to the companys side track alongside thepower station, which track in turn is connected to the maintrack of the operating company. This arrangement is con-venie

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