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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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merican Steel & Wire Com-pany, and at the same time it will replace thepresent angle-bars with 22-in. bolt continu-ous rail joints. This work will be finishedbefore the opening of heavy trafific nextspring. Running into Dayton the company has)nirchased 2^2 miles of private right of way,and this has been double-tracked. To pro-vide for heavy traffic at this end of the linethe company has installed at the Dwyerpower station a storage battery of 290 cells,furnished by the Electric Storage BatteryCompany. This is connected in series withthe Dwyer station, and cuts in automaticallywhen the load is heavy. The Hamilton & Lindenwald ElectricTransit Company, operating 9 miles of citytrack, which was acquired by the syndicateearly last year, and which became a part ofthe Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo systemunder the recent consolidation, has been greatly improved.Twenty-two new city cars have been installed, and the tracksand service greatly improved, with the result that the earnings
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NEW TRACK AND OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION OF CINCIN-NATI, DAYTON & TOLEDO SYSTEM January 31, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 173 showed an average increase of 40 per cent during the last year. The most important improvement made to the system was theabsorption of the Cincinnati & Northwestern Railroad, a steamline operating from College Hill Junction to Mount Healthy,affording a much better entrance to Cincinnati than was here-tofore possible. Incidentally it might be mentioned that thiswas the first steam road in Ohio to be absorbed by an electricstreet railway, and the right of a road of the latter class toabsorb, or consolidate with, a steam road was questioned bya rival company, but the litigation resulted in a decision infavor of the electric company. For years the interurban roads have been kept out of theheart of Cincinnati through the antagonism of the CincinnatiTraction Company, made doubly effective by the broad gage W Dayton Alcxandi.rsvilleWest tarrolton Gcniiantown i Mia

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