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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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The companys sawmill, which is located at Milton seven milesfrom Tacoma, has a capacity of 50,000 ft. per day. Thr timber isbrought down to the mill on a logging spur seven miles l„ng. Thisbranch is operated with steam locomotives. The output of themill is sold in Tacoma and Seattle and the handling of this carloadtraffic adds materially to the freight traffic. Coal mines owned byStone & Webster are located at Renton. The coal is carried over March 15, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 127 the electric line and sold at its terminal cities. The freight trafficalso includes the handling of the outputs of the Renton Clay Co., theSeattle Glass Co., a large stone quarrv. the Denny Clay Co. and theinterchange of outputs between the packing houses in Seattle and intendents Association of American Steam Railroads. This codeis in general use throughout the country. The question might possibly arise as to why the Puget SoundElectric Ry. is operated upon this system when it is an electric road
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ELECTRIC RY.—THE TERMINAL BUILDING IS NEAR THE TOWER AT THE LEFT. Tacoma. An express milk train operating between the two terminalcities, handles about 5,000 gallons of milk daily. There are two freight trains each way between the terminal cities.All carload freight is handled at night and the express matter ishandled during the day. The freight equipment consists of 2 freightlocomotives; 2 express cars each equipped with four GE-66 motorsand type-M multiple-unit control; 65 flat cars, 25 coal hoppers, 15box cars, 14 gondolas and 5 refrigerator cars. All the freight carsare M. C. B. standard with brakes hung from the trucks andare equipped with automatic air and tower couplers, thus permit-tins the cars to be interchanged with the steam lines. Such aninterchange of traffic brings to the electric road many carload ship-ments which are distributed to points on its lines. One operatingfeature of importance to the merchants and business men of Seattleand Tacoma is the interchange of tra

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