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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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Operating Featuresâ Electric Express Business. The Rockford & Interurban Railway Co. comprises an urbansystem in the city of Rockford with a suburban branch extendingto Belvidere on the east, and the Rockford & Freeport Electric Ry..which is now under construction, will be consolidated with thepresent system, making a through route of 43 miles in length ofwhich Rockford is the central point. This system had its begin-ning 23 jears ago when the first mile of city track was built inRockford on which two short horse cars were operated. The the new company extended its lines to .South Rockford and to theEast side. This company met with great opposition from the oldcompany and eventually went into the hands of a receiver. In 1895it was sold, and passed into the hands of the present companyin 1898. When the Rockford City Railway Co. and the Rockford TractionCo. were consolidated the name was changed to the RockfordRailway, Light & Power Co. The latter name was changed to the
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CROSSINI. Tin: KISIIW.MTKKK KIVKK NEAK CHKKRV V.\I,1,KV. RKkford Street Railway Co. was organized in 1880 with a capitalslock of $2rj,ooo. A state charter was secured Jan. 1, 18K1, anda franchise was granted by the city council June 27, 1881. InSeptember of the same year it was decided to build an extensionof the line to the Fair Grounds and the capital slock of the com-pany was increased to $80,000. During the first six years of itsexistence the company made a little money, but when it commencedto extend the lines to the more thinly populated parts of the citythe properly ceased to l)C a paying one. In 1889 the property ofthe old company was purchased by the present owners and the;K»wer was changed to electricity. Inder the new management thename of the company was changed to the Rockford City RailwayCo. In 1890 a new company was organised under the name of theRrickford Traction Co, which built a road to the West End forthe purp<^)se of developing this section of tlie city. Subse

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