Identifier:streetrailwayj281906newy (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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uivalent to the amount of the bond issue. The organization of the Winona Interurban Railway Com-pany, operating the Warsaw-Goshen line, is unique. Fifteendirectors of the Winona Assembly are directors of the rail-way company, and each holds in trust for the assembly $1,000of the total of $15,000 of stock issued by the company. Thestock simply represents control and the road was constructedentirely on a bond issue. The Warsaw-Goshen line, with which this article is mainlyconcerned, is only one division of an extensive system plannedby the operating company to center at Warsaw. The linealready constructed extends north of Warsaw to Goshen, 25miles. A line south of Peru, 45 miles distant, will be put intooperation within a few months, and plans are under way toextend lines east of Warsaw to Fort Wayne, 38 miles distant,and west 65 miles to Valparaiso, Ind. The east and westline will be built along a direct line from Fort Wayne toChicago, while that extending from Peru to Goshen will con-
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THE WINONA INTERURBAN RAILWAY nect the interurban railway systems in the northern portionof Indiana with those surrounding Indianapolis. The Warsaw-Goshen line was constructed almost its entirelength on a private right of way, through a rich farmingcountry averaging in population about 1200 people per mile,exclusive of terminal cities, of which Goshen has a popula-tion of 10,000 and Warsaw with 5000 people. It connectsseveral trunk steam road lines running east and west and November 17, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 963 thereby makes connections for steam road passengers en routeto Winona Lake. The Electrical Installation Company, of Chicago, carriedout the contract for the construction of the complete railwaysystem. The contracts for the power house, sub-stations, andthe electrical equipment of the cars, however, were sublet bythe Electrical Installation Company to the Allis-ChalmersCompany, of Milwaukee. Sargent & Lundy, of Chicago, whodesigned the power house andsub-stations,

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