Electrical news and engineering . Winnipeg Electric Railway PinawaChannel. Interior gen- THE ICA I. the company and the city. Millions of dollars of newcapital were put into the property until to-day the com-panys total investment exceeds twenty-five million 7 miles of trackage in 1893 the company now has112 miles of track within the city limits and 60 miles oftrack in the suburbs. Approximately 350 cars, of the mostmodern type of rolling stock are in service and the numberof employees is close to 2,000. With regard to the development of its electric utility,
Electrical news and engineering . Winnipeg Electric Railway PinawaChannel. Interior gen- THE ICA I. the company and the city. Millions of dollars of newcapital were put into the property until to-day the com-panys total investment exceeds twenty-five million 7 miles of trackage in 1893 the company now has112 miles of track within the city limits and 60 miles oftrack in the suburbs. Approximately 350 cars, of the mostmodern type of rolling stock are in service and the numberof employees is close to 2,000. With regard to the development of its electric utility,steam was the motive power which generated the electric-ity first used by the company to operate its street the small steam plant built on the banks of theAssiniboine River, the company has built and today ownsand operates a large power station at Mill Street with acapacity of and a number of sub-stations invarious parts of the city. The capacity of the Mill Streetplant was soon taxed to the utmost and with a rapidly increasing business the company realized that power gener-ated from such a pla
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