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Identifier: electricrailway411913newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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terminal badtwo loading doors for teams and two for cars, but as the of the department requires fifteen clerks, six checkers, threecollectors, two cashiers, nine conductors, two foremen,twenty-eight helpers, two messengers, seventeen motor-men and two trolley tenders, or a total of ninety-threemen, including five brakemen, the general freight agent andhis assistant. There are also twenty-five outside freightand express agents located at points elsewhere in the Statewho give their time wholly or in part to the work. FREIGHT AND EXPRESS STATIONS ,; The Dyer Street station occupies a lot of triangular shapeat the intersection of Dyer and Dorrance Streets and in-cludes quarters for the general freight agent and hisassistants, a receiving and loading shed, delivery shedand storage yard, besides being served by two passing andthree spur tracks in the adjoining streets. Two of thespur tracks shown at the left in the accompanying photo-graph are used by the express cars in loading and unload-
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Providence Express and Freight—View of Dyer Street Station, Showing Offices and Receiving Platform latter were obliged to pass in front of the former, neces-sitating constant moving of the teams, the terminal wassoon found inadequate. During the summer electric freightservice was begun between Providence and East Green-wich, and it was soon extended to Wakefield and Narra-gansett Pier by connection with the Sea View -Railroad.In the fall service was begun between Providence, Warren,Bristol, Manton, Centerdale and Cranston. In 1905 the Rhode Island Company leased the Dyer Streetstation, located about half a mile south of the business cen-ter of the city, and has since made this the headquarters ofthe service. The growth of the business necessitated theopening of an additional station in 1909 at Fox Point,on the East Side of the city, to care properly for the trafficbetween Providence and Fall River, Taunton, New Bedford,Phillipsdale and the Barrington district. The company,now operat

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