. The Street railway journal . TYPICAL WAY STATION employed by steam railroads, except that it is printed in twocolors. In addition, the company has two outside men tosolicit business and has issued various advertising souvenirs,such as lapel buttons and ladies hat pins. These souvenirsare distributed by the ticket agents and the outside agents are employed regularly at four stations, viz.,Scranton, Pittston, Hancock and Wilkesbarre. TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER ROADSThe company has traffic agreements with other roads in theEastern Railway Association, and sells through tickets and
. The Street railway journal . TYPICAL WAY STATION employed by steam railroads, except that it is printed in twocolors. In addition, the company has two outside men tosolicit business and has issued various advertising souvenirs,such as lapel buttons and ladies hat pins. These souvenirsare distributed by the ticket agents and the outside agents are employed regularly at four stations, viz.,Scranton, Pittston, Hancock and Wilkesbarre. TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER ROADSThe company has traffic agreements with other roads in theEastern Railway Association, and sells through tickets andchecks through baggage, just as steam railroads do. It also. STANDARD THREE-CAR TRAIN work upon which the passenger agent depends for develop-ing traffic. The company issues a number of traffic circulars,and when it first commenced business distributed a veryhandsome circular, which was prepared by the Matthews-Northrup Company, and of which 10,000 were printed. The interchanges freight with the Erie Railroad, the Delaware,Lackawanna & Western Railroad, and the Lehigh ValleyRailroad, and expects to haul through steam railroad passen-ger cars for certain of the steam railroad lines, which reachone of its terminals and not tlie other. i66 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIIL No. 5. FREIGHT AND EXPRESS SERVICE The company has leased the express business on its line tothe Adams Express Company, and is one of the very few elec-tric railways whose express business is conducted by one ofthe old line express companies. There are five express runseach way by special express motor car. In addition, freightcars are hauled over the line by a steam loco
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