Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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comjiany has inaugurated a freight and expressservice that has grown into much popularity. A flat carwas fitted up with a body, modeled after the broad gaugeexpress cars, but to conform with their coaches, and isrun four trips daily. Small packages, freight of all kindsand parcels are carried on these trips, being delivered bv tinental was necessary, and steps were taken to that end.Twenty-five cars were ordered, each equipped with two30-horse-power T-II.water proof motors, on maximumtraction Brill trucks. The cars are 30 feet long, paintedwhite and built with straight sides, making a handsomeand novel appearance. The entire length of this road,twenty-one miles, was rebuilt and double-tracked, a new50-pound girder rail being laid in many places. Throughthe principal parts of the city, on Third, Morrison andGlisan streets, the service is three minutes and on otherstreets seven minutes. The suburban travel is a fifteenand thirty minute service, which will be reduced whentravel warrants.
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TRACKS (IF CITY AXI) SUBURUAN RAILWAY OVER THE BIG BRIDGE, PORTLAND, ORE. the conductor of tiie train at the different stations. Thecompany issues a receipt for all packages, and takes theconsignors receipt, releasing the company from all lia-bility after the goods leave the car door at the differentstations. The charges are made regarding weight andsizeand range from 10 cents to 25 cents. The businessis increasing and shows that express cars can be operatedsuccessfully in connection with street railways, as so fre-quently advocated in these columns. The growth of the Willamette Bridge Companyslines, having all been changed to electric on the EastSide, with no direct connection in Portland, led the officersto look to either the purchase of, or consolidation withsome other line. The result was the consolidation of theTranscontinental Street Railway Company with the Wil-lamette Bridge Railway Company and the formation ofthe Cily & Suburban Railway Company, with a capitalstock of $1,

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