Identifier: electricrailwayr18amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ty of the locomotive.—Electric Trunk Line Age. The Southwestern Traction Company, London, Ont.. is saidto be planning the construction of a summer hotel and sani-tarium at New Orchard Beach. Port Stanley. Ont. 946 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol XVIII, No. 25. WINDSOR ESSEX & LAKE SHORE RAPID RAILWAY. The first single-phase electric railway to be built andoperated in Canada was the Windsor Essex & Lake ShoreRapid Railwa.v, which ran its first car in September of thisyear. This road is of particular interest to electric railwayengineers and operators on account of the use of 3-wire single-phase generators for supplying current to both a 6,600-volttrolley circuit and a 1-wire 13,200-volt transmission line. Theextreme simplicity of this method of current distribution foran electric railway will be recognized on reading the detaileddescription included in this article. The northern terminus of the road is Windsor, Ont., acrossthe river from Detroit. In Windsor a tenninal station and
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Windsor Essex & Lake Shore Rapid Railway—Catenary TrolleyConstruction at Curve in City Street. office building close to the Detroit river ferry slips has beenprocured, so that close connection may easily be made bypassengers transferring between the electric cars and theferries to and from Detroit, which cross the river in less than 10minutes time. Through the city of Windsor the electric roadhas a street franchise permitting it to operate its cars withthe overhead trolley carrying current at 6,600 volts pressure.From Windsor the line takes a southeasterly direction, servingthe following named towns, distant from Windsor the statedmileages: Pelton. S; Maidstone, 12; Essex, 16; North Ridge,20; Cottan, 21; Kingsville, 28. An extension is now underconstruction to Leamington, eight miles east of Kingsville.An extension from Leamington still farther east to Wheatleyis proposed. Between Windsor and Essex the electric road parallels abranch line of the Michigan Central Railroad, over w

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