Identifier: streetrailwayjo221903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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epoorest of the year, the road paid all operating expenses andearned money enough to pay all fixed charges, including bondinterest. A SCHENECTADYS CITY, SUBURBAN, AND INTERURBANELECTRIC RAILWAY FACILITIES It would be hard to find a better example of the rapid ad-vancement of the electric railway industry than that affordedby the growth of the Schenectady Railway Company. Only afew years ago, in 1894, this system consisted of 2 miles of singletrack with an equipment of four closed cars. The manage-ment at that time seriously considered the advisability ofcutting down the service to three cars on account of the lackof patronage, but to-day it is operating over 75 miles of trackand has in course of construction about thirty-six additionalmiles, while its equipment has increased to over 100 cars, hand-ling during the year closed, July 30, 1903, over 7,000,000 pas-sengers. Schenectady is now the hub of an electric railway systemextending like the spokes of a wheel in all directions. To the
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SCHENECTADY-ALBANY LINE OVER OLD STONE TURNPIKE north, a double-track road to Ballston Spa and Saratoga, a dis-tance of 22 miles, is about completed. To the east, a double-track road to Troy, a distance of 16 miles, was completed inMarch of the present year. To the southeast, a double-trackroad to Albany, a distance of 1^/2 miles, has been in operationfor over two years. To the south, a road is contemplated toSouth Schenectady and Altamont, a distance of 11 miles; whileto the west a connection has been made with the Fonda, Johns-town & Gloversville Railroad, making it possible to ride fromAlbany to Gloversville, a distance of 50 miles, without changeof cars. The extraordinary growth of this system may be attributedto the rapid increase in the population of the city of Schenec-tady, due to the development of the two large industries—theGeneral Electric Company and the American Locomotive Com-pany. The increase in the population of the city is shown bythe following table: 1880 13.

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