Identifier: streetrailwayjo301907newy (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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t 3-cent fares shall be granted within the citylimits of Milwaukee on the city cars. It is provided, how-ever, that a cash fare on both city and interurban carsshall be 5 cents, and that the company shall sell strips oftickets, eight coupons to the strip, for 25 cents, good onlyon the local city cars, making the cost of each ride ^/i BRIDGE OVER THE MILWAUKEE RIVER AT CEDARBURG low rate. The run of the city cars includes about a mileoutside of the city limits, and the company will accept these3-cent tickets, good over the entire run of its city cars, adistance of 4.3 miles. ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS Comstock-Haigh-Walker Company of Detroit, engineersand contractors, have had complete charge of the designand building of the system under the direct supervision ofF. W. Walker as engineer. The following officials are alsoactive in the operation of the road: W. A. Comstock, presi-dent ; Henry A. Haigh, treasurer; Ernest Gonzenbach,general manager, and H. J. Pagel, operating superintendent.
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STANDARD INTERURBAN CAR OF THE MILWAUKEE NORTHE RN RAILWAY LEAVING A STATION To each of these officials credit is due for the successfulcompletion of the line and its present efficiency. As will be seen from the foregoing, the greater part ofthe roads equipment, including all of its power and elec-trical machinery, was purchased either in Milwaukee oralong the right of way, rendering the Milwaukee-North-ern distinctively a home-made system. Auxiliary ap-paratus includes the coal-handling plant furnished by theIndustrial Works, Bay City, Mich.; cranes in the power- December 7, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. LIU house and car-repair shops built by the Whiting FoundryEquipment Company, Harvey, 111.; oil niters from thefactory of Van Dyck-Churchill Company, New York City;trucks built by the American Locomotive Company, Sche-nectady, N. Y., and the New York Car & Truck Company,Kingston, N. Y.; sweepers furnished by McGuire-CummingsCompany, Chicago; shop machinery from the Niles-Bement-

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