The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . vice, theadequacy of their equipment and directness oftheir routes for freight carrying, place Schen-ectady at a distinct advantage in the man-ufacturing world. The present traffic facili-ties will be increased within a measurablyshort time by the State Barge Canal, now inprocess of construction. Supplementing these means of transporta-tion, electric lines extend east to Troy andAlbany, north to Saratoga and Glens Falls,and west to Amsterdam, Johnstown and Glov-ersville. —has kept pace, in its ser
The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . vice, theadequacy of their equipment and directness oftheir routes for freight carrying, place Schen-ectady at a distinct advantage in the man-ufacturing world. The present traffic facili-ties will be increased within a measurablyshort time by the State Barge Canal, now inprocess of construction. Supplementing these means of transporta-tion, electric lines extend east to Troy andAlbany, north to Saratoga and Glens Falls,and west to Amsterdam, Johnstown and Glov-ersville. —has kept pace, in its service, equipment andtrackage, with the growth of the city and theresulting increase in traffic demands. TheSchenectady Railway Company, as a matterof fact, has been a principal contributoryforce in the territorial expansion of the cityand has played a conspicuous part in accel-erating the march of progress in population,commerce, manufactures and the conseqvientprosperity of the whole region traversed byits lines. The corporation, chartered in 1886, wasknown as the Schenectady Street Railway. (Plioto hy White) SihiiiCitady Railway Companys Waiting Room SCHENECTADY RAILWAY COMPANY Schenectadys street transportation problemmay be said to have had its laeginning in 1886,with the granting of the francliise for theoperation of a horse car line on State , this most difficult of public utilityproblems has never assumed, in Schenectady,so great a degree of complexity as in othercities of rapid development, for the reasonthat the agency constantly working out itssolution—the Schenectady Railway Company Company; and under its management electricmotive power was installed to supplant thehorse-drawn cars, in 1891. Four years laterthe franchise and physical properties of thecompany were acquired by the present organ-ization, and the task of developing the systemand improving its service was begun. Stead-ily the lines were extended to reach every partof the city requiring tr
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