. Electric railway journal . EUctric By. Journal Galveston-Houston Railway—Route of Electric Lines andSteam Railroads Centering at Houston among its shipping facilities are 220 miles of steam railroadterminal trackage, 5 miles of docks and 95 acres of Galveston three steamship lines are in service to Liver-pool, three to New York and one each to Bremen, Cuba, VeraCruz and Tampico. Houston, 45 miles northwest, has a popula-tion of about 90,000. It is the greatest cotton market in theworld, the center of the oil and lumber regions of the State,and is served by 18 railroad connect
. Electric railway journal . EUctric By. Journal Galveston-Houston Railway—Route of Electric Lines andSteam Railroads Centering at Houston among its shipping facilities are 220 miles of steam railroadterminal trackage, 5 miles of docks and 95 acres of Galveston three steamship lines are in service to Liver-pool, three to New York and one each to Bremen, Cuba, VeraCruz and Tampico. Houston, 45 miles northwest, has a popula-tion of about 90,000. It is the greatest cotton market in theworld, the center of the oil and lumber regions of the State,and is served by 18 railroad connections. GENERAL FEATURES The new line is to be of single-track construction, with aright-of-way permitting a second track eventually. Its total. Galveston-Houston Line—Stacking Steel in the Material Yard trackage covers miles, consisting of a main line of ; five passing tracks with a total length of 1 mile, and threesubstation sidings, mile long. The inclusion of short con-nections inside the limits of the terminal cities brings the totalof trolley on the line to miles. The overhead work is ofcatenary construction. Other distinguishing engineering fea-tures of the road are an unusual absence of grades and curves, the supply of power from a central plant to substations withmotor-generator sets to supply direct current to the rollingstock, and the use of a type of interurban car which has sub-stantially become a standard for the interurban service of theStone & Webster organization. ROUTE AND TRACK Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Houston theline follows a southeasterly direction, traversing Harris andGalveston Counties to the westerly municipal limits of Galves-ton. The territory is
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