. Electric railway journal . secondAvenue, Chicago, and Wheaton, , has been subdivided and is be-ing rapidly sold and built up by peoplewho go to Chicago for business eachday. Thus the commuter traffic is in-creasing at a rapid rate. The rates of fare for the five different classes of ticketsissued have been determined largely by the severe steam-railroad competition. A table reproduced on page 226shows the fares in detail from the Fifth Avenue terminalstation in Chicago to each of the important stations be-tween Maywood and Elgin. 226 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXVIII, No. 6. T
. Electric railway journal . secondAvenue, Chicago, and Wheaton, , has been subdivided and is be-ing rapidly sold and built up by peoplewho go to Chicago for business eachday. Thus the commuter traffic is in-creasing at a rapid rate. The rates of fare for the five different classes of ticketsissued have been determined largely by the severe steam-railroad competition. A table reproduced on page 226shows the fares in detail from the Fifth Avenue terminalstation in Chicago to each of the important stations be-tween Maywood and Elgin. 226 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXVIII, No. 6. The competition of frequent through high-speed steamtrains requires very fast running by the electric cars, so asto hold the advantage from the transportation train service is regularly operated, the motorcars having 500-hp capacity each and being geared to70 The necessity for this very high gear ratio is felt THE AURORA, ELGIN & CHICAGO RAILROAD COMPANY Car Mileage Report Month ol M «Y—. NUMBER OF TRAINS OPERATED Tcjio. 1 AM <-ia 1 a. 38 8 366 *t37 • 237 J012 2064 1008 2016 ?■» 68 s 3t1 3 72 513 Ml ■123 9 36 6 3 12 s •• I S / J I76t 3-185 isti 58 27/ Between Wheaton and Aurora IC 738 738 710 26 a •• I S3 3 18. 185 37° *26 52 3 ■■ IT SI 27 81 */o *3o 1 1- * 1 % Totd 9M 1107 929 1165 • 7 °.58 Between Wbeaton and Elgin 735 735 673 62 J » ns 2-1-5 ■ISO * 6 *I3 2-I } 1 1 £ 1J ■♦5 « .1 33 3 « * 3 * 12 a TMd sis IIOS 93* 12 20 .8 •-I5- ► Metropolitan Eguipment Uicd COACH ^44fle TOTAL _«J2Q Aurora, Elgin & Chicago—Monthly Report Showing CarMileage Subdivided and Compared with Previous Year more and more each year as new suburbs develop and as thenumber of stops is increased. OPERATING SPEEDS As an illustration of the severe requirements which thecars have to meet in the way of speed attention is called tothe running time of the different classes of trains betweenElgin and Chicago. These tra
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