. Electric railway journal . der construction: Thirty 50-ft. suburban carsfor the St. Louis bridge service; 2 sleeping cars; 1 private car;4 combination baggage, smoking and passenger cars; 50 80,000,-lb. capacity coal cars; 35 8o,oco-lb. capacity box cars; 4 ca-boose cars; 4 express motor-cars; 11 electric locomotives forfreight service and 32 express trail cars. New rolling stock received during the year included 10 inter-urban passenger cars built by the American Car & FoundryCompany; 35 coal cars of 80,000-lb. capacity, built by the Has-kell & Barker Car Company; 25 grain cars of 80,000-lb
. Electric railway journal . der construction: Thirty 50-ft. suburban carsfor the St. Louis bridge service; 2 sleeping cars; 1 private car;4 combination baggage, smoking and passenger cars; 50 80,000,-lb. capacity coal cars; 35 8o,oco-lb. capacity box cars; 4 ca-boose cars; 4 express motor-cars; 11 electric locomotives forfreight service and 32 express trail cars. New rolling stock received during the year included 10 inter-urban passenger cars built by the American Car & FoundryCompany; 35 coal cars of 80,000-lb. capacity, built by the Has-kell & Barker Car Company; 25 grain cars of 80,000-lb. capac-ity, built by the American Car & Foundry Company, and 7passenger trail cars, built by the Danville Car Company. The Illinois Traction System recently became a member ofthe Master Car Builders Association, and, as earlier announced,has completed interchange agreements with the Chicago &Eastern Illinois, Rock Island and Frisco systems. It is nownecessary for the company to observe the M. C. B. rules for. Illinois Traction System—New Standard Passenger Depotand Substation interchange of equipment, and the companys cars also are atall times subject to inspection by the representatives of theInterstate Commerce Commission. TRAFFIC During 1909 the interurban system of the McKinley syndicateenjoyed a substantial increase in traffic. This increase is dueto natural causes and also to improvement in service broughtabout by faster schedules and by vigorous advertising. Theregular schedules out of the Springfield terminal alone now in-clude 106 trains a day. These trains operate over lines ex-tending north to Peoria and Bloomington, east to Decatur,Champaign and Danville, and south to Edwanlsville and The Springfield-St. Louis service includes a sleeping carin each direction every night. This sleeping-car service shortlywill be extended to include the run from Peoria to St. Louis, miles. At present there is no steam railroad throughsleeper between these cities. Two
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