. The street railway review . vr INK N EXrHESS ^ TlIK NllRTll ILAN OF 1NI>IANA1-0US TR.\CTIO.\ Ji TERMINAL COS. PASSENGER AND .-TATK NS. 341 STREET RAILWAY RE\li:\\, I Vol. XV, Nu. Lij-ht Electric Railways*. IIY J. R. CKAVATH. It has for some time liceii apparent to engineers that have hadto advise regarding numerous proposed interurban electric roads incertain states (oi which lUinois and Iowa are the most notableexamples) that there is a need for a class of electric railway thatdoes not require the heavy investment needed to build the typicalinterurban o
. The street railway review . vr INK N EXrHESS ^ TlIK NllRTll ILAN OF 1NI>IANA1-0US TR.\CTIO.\ Ji TERMINAL COS. PASSENGER AND .-TATK NS. 341 STREET RAILWAY RE\li:\\, I Vol. XV, Nu. Lij-ht Electric Railways*. IIY J. R. CKAVATH. It has for some time liceii apparent to engineers that have hadto advise regarding numerous proposed interurban electric roads incertain states (oi which lUinois and Iowa are the most notableexamples) that there is a need for a class of electric railway thatdoes not require the heavy investment needed to build the typicalinterurban of to-day. In other words, there are scores of placesthat would not yield an interurban road a gross revenue of $3,000per track mile per year, and there is little prospect that they everwill, yet half or two-thirds that income would be certain andcontinuous. On account of the numerous opportunities for roadsof a cheaper class in our rich, agricultural states, which have com-paratively few large manufacturing towns, many engineers havelooked forward with mucli hope to the single phase,
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