. The Street railway journal . MAP SHOWING THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS IN WISCONSIN shore of Lake Winnebago and the Fox River have encouragedthe building of the lines connecting Fond du Lac, Oshkosh,Omro, Menash, Neenah, Appleton and Kaukauna. The gapbetween Kaukauna and Green Bay is at present being filled,a^ indicated. In the Southern part of the State the Rockford, Beloit &Janesville Railroad is the most prominent and is one of the Lake Winnebago district has no direct connection withMadison at present. The Columbia Construction Company, of Milwaukee, isdoing some preliminary work on a line from
. The Street railway journal . MAP SHOWING THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS IN WISCONSIN shore of Lake Winnebago and the Fox River have encouragedthe building of the lines connecting Fond du Lac, Oshkosh,Omro, Menash, Neenah, Appleton and Kaukauna. The gapbetween Kaukauna and Green Bay is at present being filled,a^ indicated. In the Southern part of the State the Rockford, Beloit &Janesville Railroad is the most prominent and is one of the Lake Winnebago district has no direct connection withMadison at present. The Columbia Construction Company, of Milwaukee, isdoing some preliminary work on a line from Omro to Berlin. The other lines in the State are practically isolated shortlines connecting two or three moderate sized towns, and, as willbe seen, there are a number of such. 532 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 14. GROWTH OF THE FREIGHT DEPOT AT TOLEDO Tlie growth of the inlcrurban freight business centering inToledo is sliown by the necessity for larger quarters, which has. ISOMETRIC VIEW OF ELECTRIC RAILWAY i:XiRKSS STATIONS AT TOLELO resulted in more than doubling the capacity of the depot illus-trated in Mr. Langs article in the Souvenir Street RailwayJournal of 1902. Plan and perspective drawings of the oldand new freight houses are shown in the accompanying illus- trations. The old part is 25 ft. wide by 128 ft. long, and the newpart is 29 ft. wide by 128 ft. long. The interurban freight cars enter through an alley betweenthe two buildings. The freight office is used jointly by allthe interurban roads entering Toledo, including the Toledo &Western, Lake Shore Electric, Toledo & Monroe and Toledo &Maumee Valley Railways. Lack of power has preventedfreight traffic being developed to its fullest extent by some ofthe Toledo roads. On the Toledo & Western, however, whichif the most distinctly freight road of any entering the city, thegrowth has been enormous. The increase in freight on thisroad last year over the previous year was 97 per
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