Identifier: streetrailwayjo281906newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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The interchanges freight with the Erie Railroad, the Delaware,Lackawanna & Western Railroad, and the Lehigh ValleyRailroad, and expects to haul through steam railroad passen-ger cars for certain of the steam railroad lines, which reachone of its terminals and not the other. i66 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVIIL No. 5. FREIGHT AND EXPRESS SERVICE The company has leased the express business on its line to the Adams Express Company, and is one of the very few elec-tric railways whose express business is conducted by one ofthe old line express companies. There are five express runseach way by special express motor car. In addition, freightcars are hauled over the line by a steam locomotive owned Scranton, and the company uses a modification of Nos. 19and 31 of the Standard American Railway Forms, as shownon page 170, except that the instruction is sent by telephoneinstead of telegraph. The conductor is required to write thetrain order as received by the despatcher on an autographic
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