. The street railway review . -, but the tratlic \ery often ex-ceeds the accommodations and steam cars are run are now being made for double tracks. The road itself is miles long, to be exact, fromthe Seventh Street Cable to the Lake. The rail isIllinois Steel Companys 50-pound T, laid on ties 22inches from center to center, balanced with gravel and. ,3^^f* ~^^t:^^^_ strong enough for steam cars and freight. The wire ishigh enough to allow the brakemen to stand upright onthe highest cars. The power house, located about themiddle of the line, at North St. Paul, is of Chaska b
. The street railway review . -, but the tratlic \ery often ex-ceeds the accommodations and steam cars are run are now being made for double tracks. The road itself is miles long, to be exact, fromthe Seventh Street Cable to the Lake. The rail isIllinois Steel Companys 50-pound T, laid on ties 22inches from center to center, balanced with gravel and. ,3^^f* ~^^t:^^^_ strong enough for steam cars and freight. The wire ishigh enough to allow the brakemen to stand upright onthe highest cars. The power house, located about themiddle of the line, at North St. Paul, is of Chaska brick,84 by 128 feet. Babcock-Wilcox boilers are used, twoin number, of 100 horse-power each. Two multipolar80 Thomson-Houston generators are driven by two 100-horse-power, non-condensing Ideal engines. The officesof the company are in the building. The rolling stock consists of five 2S-foot, La Clede cars,mounted on McGuire trucks, with two 25-horse-powermotors per car. The entire run is made in 40 minutes, and for the first21 days of operation, 21,000 were carried. The work commenced by the North West Thomson-Houston Company, clearing for road bed, power houseand grading, April 28, and the first car run was July i,which was very speedy work, considering that Minnesotawas blessed with 27 rainy days in May. The officers of the Company are: Walter S. Morton,presi
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