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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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The Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction Company hasinaugurated a new schedule which gives an hour-and-a-halfservice between Fort Wavne and Decatur. FRAMING OF REAR PLATFORM Merced, for a total length of 2.7 miles. Another branch, amile in length, will skirt the north side of Islais Creek dis-trict and extend east to Illinois Street, near the WesternPacifics tracks and in the direction of the sugar refinery.So the total length of the Ocean Shore when completed willbe 92.5 miles. January ii, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 45 NEW CAR HOUSE AND CLUB ROOMS IN GRAND RAPIDS Like many other street railway companies that have gonein for clubs composed of employees, the Grand RapidsRailway Company has found that its efforts are appreci-ated and that the advantages which the club offers for good,wholesome entertainment and for social intercourse be-tween the men themselves tend greatly toward efficiency
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WKAI.IIIV AVENUE CAR llOrSE, GRAND RAPIDS in the individual employee and work to the advantage ofboth the company and the riding public. Thus when thecompany decided about a year and a half ago to build anew car house on Wealthy Avenue and make it the centralcar house of the system, one of the first questions thatcame up for solution was that of providing suitable accom-modations for the men. As a result of the deliberations. house is open at the front and contains seven tracks sepa-rated into two bays, one of five tracks and the other oftwo, by a fire wall. Of the barn proper an excellent ideais conveyed by the illustrations presented herewith of thegeneral exterior and the track layout, which shows thearrangement of the pits, the location of the transfer table,etc. Coming to the club equipment, with which it is the pur-pose of this articleto deal, it is onlynecessary casuallyto glance at the ac-companying picturesof the reading room,the pool room, thelunch room and thedormitory full

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