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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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or operation in trains. The officers of the Elgin & Belvidere Electric Co. are: President,Hamilton Browne; secretary and treasurer, J. Joseph Wright. Oth-ers interested in the project are Bion J. Arnold, John M. Roachand Granger, Farwell & Co. The Arnold Co., Chicago, has chargeof the engineering features of the line and the Main ConstructionCo. is domg the construction work. Mr. Arthur T. Browne is presi-dent of the latter company, and R. G. Arnold, secretary and treas-urer. The offices of the Elgin & Belvidere Electric Co. are at-iii4Unity Building, 79 Dearborn St., Chicago. Annual Report of the Montreal StreetRailway Co. The annual report of the president and directors of the Mon-treal Street Railway Co., for the year ended Sept. 30, 1905, wassubmitted at the 45th annual meeting of shareholders, held onNov. 2, 1905. The comparative statement of the company for thisperiod and the same period 1904 is as follows: 1905. 1904.$2,463,824.70l>5lo,997-9062.37952,826.8011.10.
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M.^(• OF ELGIN & liELVIDERE ELECTRIC CO. AND CONNECTIONS. on private right of way of sufficient width for eventually doubletracking the line. It will be built with a view to high speed servicewith maximum grades of two per cent. There will be fewcurves. The rails will be 70-lb. A. S. C. E. section laid to standardgage and double bonded at each joint. The tics will be 6x8 in. x 8ft. laid 2,800 to the mile. The roadbed will hi gravel ballasted. The transmission line will be carried on 35-ft. poles set 100 ft.center to center, and will transmit three-phase alternating currentat 25,000 volts pressure. Three sub-stations will be constructed atsuitable points on the line. Each will be equipped with two rotaryconverters with transformers, switchboard and accessories, and pro- Gross receipts $2,707.474.11 Operating expenses 1,650,565.99 Expenses, per cent of car earnings.... 61.88 Net earnings 1,056,908.12 Net income per cent of capital 11.25 The number of passengers carried in 1905 was

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