. The Street railway journal . rvice, first established stations by the heavy electric express and passenger cars,between Fort Dodge and Des Moines on Nov. 4, is based The total running time from terminal to terminal is three hours fifty minutes, but forty-threeminutes are consumed in covering 4miles within city limits at Des Moinesand 2j4 miles in Fort Dodge. Comparison between speed of theelectric and steam passenger trainson the above systems is possible onlyon the stretch between Buxley andLanyon, which is used in common byNewton & Northwestern and FortDodge, Des Moines & Southern
. The Street railway journal . rvice, first established stations by the heavy electric express and passenger cars,between Fort Dodge and Des Moines on Nov. 4, is based The total running time from terminal to terminal is three hours fifty minutes, but forty-threeminutes are consumed in covering 4miles within city limits at Des Moinesand 2j4 miles in Fort Dodge. Comparison between speed of theelectric and steam passenger trainson the above systems is possible onlyon the stretch between Buxley andLanyon, which is used in common byNewton & Northwestern and FortDodge, Des Moines & Southern distance here of 42 miles is cov-ered by the average steam trains enroute between Newton and RockwellCity in about two hours and by all theelectric trains in one hour thirty-sixminutes, including the same regularstops. To provide for the high maximumspeed on the system it was necessaryto rebuild the permanent way of theelectrified section of the Newton &motor car taking UP freight Northwestern Railroad. The road.
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