. Electric railway journal . American Electrifications—Erie and West Shore Railroads,Central New York companys tracks between Middletown and Cromwell, Taftsand Central Village, etc., carry trolley cars of its sub-sidiary, the Connecticut Company, besides the regular steamservice. The 11,000-volt, single-phase, twenty-five-cycle main-lineelectrification of the New York, New Haven & HartfordRailroad is too well known to require any description,numerous articles on this subject having been published inthe Street Railway Journal and the Electric RailwayJournal since 1905. A general review of the l
. Electric railway journal . American Electrifications—Erie and West Shore Railroads,Central New York companys tracks between Middletown and Cromwell, Taftsand Central Village, etc., carry trolley cars of its sub-sidiary, the Connecticut Company, besides the regular steamservice. The 11,000-volt, single-phase, twenty-five-cycle main-lineelectrification of the New York, New Haven & HartfordRailroad is too well known to require any description,numerous articles on this subject having been published inthe Street Railway Journal and the Electric RailwayJournal since 1905. A general review of the locomotivedevelopment on this system was published in the issue ofFeb. 17, 1912. The section now in operation comprises of route, or miles of single track, between Wood-lawn at the New York City line and Stamford, and theHarlem River branch as shown has just been completed. American Electrifications—West Jersey and SeashoreDivision, Pennsylvania Railroad with miles of main line and 78 miles of yard track, atotal of miles of single track. The main line elec-trification for the 41 miles between Stamford and NewHaven now nearing completion will comprise 170 milesof main-line track and 40 miles of yards and sidings, or210 miles in all. Furthermore, the board of directors hasapproved the electrification of the four-track main line ioo8 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 23. between Providence and Boston, a distance of approxi-mately 50 miles. This work will call for 196 miles of main-line track and 20 miles of yards and sidings, a total of 216miles. The figures for the Providence-Boston electrifica-tion are subject to change as the plans are not yet ma-tured, but the single-phase mileages of the Harlem Riverand Stamford-New Haven divisions are approximately cor-rect. The total single-phase electrification of this characterwith the completion
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