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Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (find matches)
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
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y has $12,500,000 of stock and $11,425,000 ofbonds. The Detroit United Ry. now has a total of 200 miles of track, theacquisition of the Wyandotte road giving it a line extending all theway from Grosse Point, on Lake St. Clair, to Trenton, opposite and Mt. Clemens there are two routes, one an air line and one fol-lowing the lake shore. Between Port Huron and Detroit the distance by the shorterroute is 73 miles, of which sA miles is over lines of the urban com-pany in Detroit. Upon the completion of the through line it was decided to usethree phase transmission lines, and the work of altering the powerstation at New Baltimore was begun in the fall of 1899. The roadwas operated from the new plant Apr. i, 1900. There are fivetransformer stations located at Roseville, Mt. Clemens, New Balti-more, Algonac and St. Clair. The transmission potential is 16,-000 volts, and the line voltage 600; the line pressure is soon to bechanged to 700 volts, however. The apparatus is Westinghousethroughout.
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MAP OF THE INTERURBAN ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF DETROIT. Lake Erie, a distance of 25 miles. The route is in the streets ad-jacent to the river and lake. The officers and operating staff are: President, Henry A. Everett,Cleveland; vice-president and treasurer, J. C. Hutchins; secretary,J. F. Van Name, New York; assistant secretary and purchasingagent, A. E. Peters; consulting engineer, A. B. du Pont, St. Louis;superintendent, A. H. Stanley; superintendent of motive power,Thomas Farmer; superintendent of tracks and wires, E. J. Dunne;auditor, Irwin Fullerton. The Rapid Railway system has 107 miles of track, and comprisesthe lines of six companies, the Rapid Ry., the Detroit, Mt. Clemens& Marine City Ry., the Port Huron, St. Clair & Marine City Ry.,the Detroit & Lake St. Clair Ry„ the Mt. Clemens & LakesideTraction Co., and the City Ry., of Port Huron. Between Detroit The company is now operating 22 interurban passenger carswhich are 51 ft. long and a number of smaller local

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