. Electric railway gazette . rmantown Junction. Every train but one formerly stopped at West-moreland. Now 12 trains from Broad Street sta-tain and 6 from Germantown do not stop at West-moreland. The trolley cars are now carrying the bulk of thetravel from the vicinity of the Forty-second streetand Forty-ninth street stations of the Central Di-vision of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-more Railroad, and the Delaware County and Phil-adelphia Electric Railroad is making inroads in thesteam traffic from Angora, Fernwood, Clifton andLansdowne, so that the next time table of the Phil-adelphia,
. Electric railway gazette . rmantown Junction. Every train but one formerly stopped at West-moreland. Now 12 trains from Broad Street sta-tain and 6 from Germantown do not stop at West-moreland. The trolley cars are now carrying the bulk of thetravel from the vicinity of the Forty-second streetand Forty-ninth street stations of the Central Di-vision of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-more Railroad, and the Delaware County and Phil-adelphia Electric Railroad is making inroads in thesteam traffic from Angora, Fernwood, Clifton andLansdowne, so that the next time table of the Phil-adelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad will,it is thought, show fewer suburban trains on theCentral Division. STORAGE BATTERY ELECTRIC RAILWAYAND LIGHTING PLANT. BY G. HERBERT CONDICT. The city of Merrill, with a population of about9,000, is situated on the Wisconsin River in thelumber regions of Northern Central Wisconsin, 255miles north of Milwaukee. The city is divided bythe Prairie River (which here flows into the Wis-. QUICK-BREAK SWITCH. of switch is at the present time in use on the Rox-borough & Incline Plane Railroad and the Potts-town & Ringing Rocks road. J. Grant High & Co. are fitting with theseswitches several large railroad boards, now underway of construction in their shops. COMPETITION WITH STEAM LINESPHILADELPHIA .SUBURBS. IN It is stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad isfeeling the competition of trolley lines to near-bysuburban points to such an extent that the subjectof reducing rates or withdrawing trains is beingseriously considered. The electric lines to Ger-mantown, Roxborough, Frankford, Media and in-tervening points, Darby and Chester, are drawingmore and more from the steam roads by reason oftheir convenience, frequent trips and cheaper many cases the time is about the same. A largenumber of passengers who have to walk severalsquares to and from the railroad stations at bothends of their trip, find that the trolley cars carrythem from home to desti
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