. The Street railway journal . iddletown thelatter diverges in a southeasterly direction to Cincinnati, FIG. 5.—VIEW ON LINE OF MIAMI VALLEY TRACTION COMPANY The frequency of cars between Dayton and Hamilton—every half hour from early in the morning till late atnight—and the fact that the line traverses the principalstreets of the several cities and towns, combined with thelow rates of fare, has secured for it all the interurbantravel along its route. This is so true that several localtrains of the Cincinnati,Hamilton & Dayton and Big FourRailroad have been withdrawn. The cars make the 38miles
. The Street railway journal . iddletown thelatter diverges in a southeasterly direction to Cincinnati, FIG. 5.—VIEW ON LINE OF MIAMI VALLEY TRACTION COMPANY The frequency of cars between Dayton and Hamilton—every half hour from early in the morning till late atnight—and the fact that the line traverses the principalstreets of the several cities and towns, combined with thelow rates of fare, has secured for it all the interurbantravel along its route. This is so true that several localtrains of the Cincinnati,Hamilton & Dayton and Big FourRailroad have been withdrawn. The cars make the 38miles in the 135 minutes, including all stops, and thethrough fare is 50 cents. The road is operated similar to steam roads. It has atrain-despatching system, using telephones. It is equippedwith a block signal system. Cars are provided with smok-ing compartments, toilet rooms, ice water and completelyvestibuled. The company has established its own ticket offices andagencies and waiting rooms in each and every town along-. FIG. 6.—INTERIOR OF BUSENBARK STATION the line. The style of tickets and the manner of keepingthe accounts are similar in every respect to steam railroadsystems. The company issues single and round trip, fullfare and half fare tickets between all stations, school tick-ets, monthly commutation, and in all has 454 forms con- 122 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vou XIV. No. 3. stantly on sale. Baggage is checked and carried free, andthe Wells & Fargo Express Company handles all the ex-press business along the route. Another peculiar fact which must be of interest to elec-tric railway men is that while the C. H. & D. bitterly op-posed the building of an electric road paralleling its own,its attitude has changed, and it is stated that it now pro-poses to make use of the interurban as a feeder, issuing per car) with latest controllers at both ends of cars and trucks were made at the shops of the Barney& Smith Car Companys shops upon plans furnished bythe e
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