Identifier: streetrailwayrev161amer (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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ts on connecting lines One ofthe largest items is street material in the form of gravel which i-had at a very large gravel pit owned by the company at Liberty-ville. A large number of the towns on the line are using thismaterial for paving and the revenue derived from hauling it isquite large, 2j^ cents per cut. being charged for the haul from thepit to any point on the line. The Libertyville trotting track is lo-cated exclusively on the line of the Chicago & Milwaukee ElectricR. R. and the tracks of the company serve the stables. At certainseasons of the year the company handles a large amount of stock-to and from the race track, which is delivered to it by connectingsteam lines at Rondout and Rockefeller. Other shipments handledby the freight trains include lumber, building material and rails.The freight train crews consist of engineer, fireman, conductor andone brakeman, whose duties correspond to those of men employedon steam roads. Freight rates at present are governed by the
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FLOOR.PLAN OF NEW SUB-STATION NEAR KENOSHA, SHOWING MACHINERY AND BATTERY ROOMS. hours per day. In addition to the service provided by these twoexpress cars, passenger cars with baggage and express compart-ments are operated between Evanston and Waukegan, in bothdirections, at intervals of 1 hour and 20 minutes, while all trains onthe Libertyville Division carry baggage and express. The trainscarrying express are so indicated on the time tables published bythe company. Both freight and express tariffs are published by the company,the freight rates being based on tariffs published by competingsteam lines and the express rates corresponding to those of compet-ing express companies operating over steam railroads. Special com-modity rates are published from time to time and general tariffswill be published by the company as soon as the size of the businessjustifies this measure. At the present time express rates are pub-lished, together with general rules regarding the handling of thisbus

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