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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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company has inprocess of construction an interurban line from Niles to Buchan-an, Mich. The entire route over which the cars of this road operate is 35 along the route, the management of this road expects to enjoy thepatronage of the especially large summer population which cen-ters at St. Joseph and Berrien Springs. It is interesting to notethat there are one or more summer resorts within easy walkingdistance of each of the regular interurban stops between Nilesand St. Joseph. The route for a large proportion of the distance,parallels the St. Joseph River along which there are many sum-mer hotels and boarding houses. It is expected that through tickets from South Bend to Chicagoby the way of St. Joseph and the Graham & Morton steamshipline can be sold at somewhat lower rates than the steam railroadscharge for transportation between South Bend and Chicago. The northern half of the route bi-sects the well-known Michi-gan fruit belt and will afford transportation facilities of easy
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BRIDGE OVER THE ST- JOSEPH RIVER AT BERRIEN SPRINGS EIGHT 15O-FT. THROUGH TRUSSES ON CONCRETE PIERS. miles long. The larger amount of passenger traffic will be fur-nished by the cities of South Bend, the southern terminus, St.Joseph, the northern terminus, Niles, situated about one-quarterof the entire length of the route north of South Bend and BerrienSprings, situated a like distance south of St. Joseph. Trackagerights have been obtained in the two terminal cities so that theinterurban cars have excellent terminal facilities. In St. Josephthe interurban cars operate over the tracks of the St. Joseph &Benton Harbor Electric Light & Railway Co. for a distance ofabout 4.000 ft. This portion of the route is double-tracked. Theprivate right of way of the interurban line extends to withinone-half mile of the terminal station at South Bend. Other than the usual traffic to be had from the substantial cities access for the large amount of freight traffic which originates inthis terri

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