Identifier: electricrailway581921newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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f the Illinois Traction System between Spring-field and St. Louis is 99.1 miles, while contracts havebeen issued for 89.71 miles of hard road between thesetwo points. For this construction work the IllinoisTraction System will haul fully 75 per cent of thematerials used. The volume of traffic which this extensive construc-tion program means may be realized when it is con-sidered that 1 mile of the Illinois standard 18-ft. con-crete road requires approximately twenty-two carloadsof sand, thirty-six cars of gravel, seventeen cars ofcement and one carload of reinforcing steel. In addi-tion, the contractors receiving station and much ofthe equipment must be moved once for about every8 miles of road built, each such move meaning a specialfreight job for the traction company. At each pointwhere the contractor makes a set-up or receiving stationthe railway installs a siding with a capacity for abouttwelve cars. The railway furnishes and claims the 506 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 58, No. 13
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September 24, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 507 material used in the siding, but the contractor paysthe cost of putting it in and taking it out. Thus, while the Illinois Traction System anticipatesthat the hard roads will take away a certain amountof the short-haul riders, it is making the most of thesituation by securing the business of hauling thenecessary materials. The main interurban lines of theIllinois Traction System comprise 418 miles of con-nected line, paralleling which there is probably in theneighborhood of 200 miles of concrete road for whichthe Traction System has secured or will secure thehaulage of materials. The freight revenue of the I. T. S. is now approxi-mately one-third of the total revenue of the interurbansystem. Of this, approximately one-half is derivedfrom hauling coal originating at mines served by thecompany. The efforts of the traffic department duringthe past year have been largely directed to increasingthe tonnage that can be handled profitably. This h

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