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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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^ 725 NEW PLANT OF THE CHICAGO GENERALRAILWAY. The most important electric railway work being donein Chicago this fall, exclusive of the changing over fromhorses to electricity of the three great systems whichhave held sway on the north, west and south sides formany years, is the new plant of the Chicago GeneralRailway, a company that has extensive franchises in the southwest part of the city and which has been operatingfour miles of line on west Twenty-second street for overa year. The line now running has proved to be aremarkably paying one as was noted in a previous issue ofthe Review. It is simply a crosstown line and has nodowntown connection as yet. The traffic is at presentrestricted by the limited output of a temporary powerplant. With the erection of the power house and carbarns here described and the building of several more CAR HOUSE, REPAIR SHOPS ANDPOWER PLANT OF THECHICAGO GENERAL RAILWAY CO. DESIGNED BY C L BONNEY VR STEAM R. R. TRACK CENTERS•= STREET Rr TRACK CENTERS
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4-5 7: THIRTY FIRST S T R E E: T 72« (^ftjwjd/J\^iiWa^J\^^ miles of line for which franchises have been granted, theroad will at once take a place as one of the important sys-tems of Chicago. The buildings are now almost com-pleted. The site chosen was on the corner of Thirty-first streetand Kedzie avenue a location nearly central to the terri-tory to be served and at the same time one which didnot necessitate any expensive crowding of power stationor car barns. The lot is bounded on the east by Ked-zie avenue, on the south by Thirty-first street, and onthe north diagonally by a branch of the Santa Fe Rail-road. The Chicago river is but a short distance to the The plans are so drawn that enlargements can bemade to utilize every foot of ground to good advantagewithout tearing down work already put in. The powerhouse, located in the southwest corner of the lot, can beextended north toward the railroad tracks, so as to morethan double its present planned maximum capacity witha uniform a

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