Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (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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patronage.The manager of the large city railway turns his attention to provid-ing accommodation for enormous tralVic, and schedules must be ar-ranged for a large movement of cars at certain intervals in the day.As a rule the cars of suburban roads are not so burdened with pas-sengers and the ingenuity of the manager must be exercised to is at 63d street and South Park avenue, connection being made withthe Alley L. At 63d and Stony Island avenue is the other northernterminal of the Calumet and South Chicago City lines, and connec-tion is made at this point with the Alley L and the Chicago Citylines. Three of the Calumet lines center at this point, the Pullman,the Robey and the Grand Crossing, and during each day of 18hours there are from 250 cars in winter to 350 in summer broughtto this terminal. There is sharp competition in this portion of thecity, for besides the electric lines, the Illinois Central Railroad givesan excellent service with its local and express suburlian trains, but
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KIC. 1-CALUMET TERMINAL STATION. FIG. 3—ELEVATORS IN WAITING ROOM. stimulate travel. The Calumet Electric Street Railway Companyhas 90 miles of track and all of this is in the suburban districts inthe southern part of Chicago. About 70 per cent of the patronageon its lines is what is known as through traffic, i. e., passengers usethe Calumet lines to reach the SoiUh Side Elevated and the ChicagoCity lines to go to the business districts. There are three suburban systems in the southern part of thecity, the Calumet, the South Chicago City and the Chicago Trac-tion (the storage battery road), and the Chicago City runs as farsouth as 79th street. One northern terminal of the suburban lines higher rates are cliarged than on the electric cars. Where the Alley L crosses the elevated tracks of the Illinois Cen-tral at 63d street it was necessary to raise the structure to 30 ftabove the street grade, and this makes a station of unusual heightat Stony Island avenue. H. M. Sloan, general mana

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