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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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pringfield & Northeastern Ry.,Central Railway Co., Peoria; and the Peoria, Bloomington & NormalRailway & Electric Co. The latter three companies are recent pur-chases, having been acquired during the past month. Recently Built Lines. That portion of the Chicago, Bloomington & Decatur Ry.,between Bloomington and Decatur, is now about completed, and carswere recently put in service on regular schedule from Decatur northto Clinton, a distance of 20 miles. The entire division is 42 mileslong. It has a single-track roadbed built on a 60 to 100 ft. wideprivate right of way, with franchises for operating through the streetsof the towns served. The roadbed conforms to the same standardsas are used on the St. Louis division, being laid with 70-lb. steel andballasted with gravel. Span-supported overhead work is usedthroughout the entire line. During the construction of this division the Illinois Central R. R.,whose right of way is paralleled by the electric line, put into opera-
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TEAIN OF SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR THE ILLINOIS TRACTION SYSTEM. will be operating over this line from Springfield to Bloomington.The lines now operating include no miles of city track and 236 milesof interurban track extending from Danville near the Indiana stateline to East St. Louis and Granite City on the Mississippi River,with the exception of the distance between Champaign and Decatur,where rights of way are being purchased for the connecting link.It is the purpose of this article to describe in detail the extensionsand improvements that have been made during the past year andalso to outline the operating methods used in handling the passengerand freight traffic of this extensive system. The accompanying map has indicated upon it the operative andproposed interurban roads controlled by the McKinley syndicate,which also owns and operates a large number of gas, street railwayand electric lighting properties in the cities near and on its interurbanlines. The companies controlled by

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