The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . e) SihiiiCitady Railway Companys Waiting Room SCHENECTADY RAILWAY COMPANY Schenectadys street transportation problemmay be said to have had its laeginning in 1886,with the granting of the francliise for theoperation of a horse car line on State , this most difficult of public utilityproblems has never assumed, in Schenectady,so great a degree of complexity as in othercities of rapid development, for the reasonthat the agency constantly working out itssolution—the Schenectady Railway
The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . e) SihiiiCitady Railway Companys Waiting Room SCHENECTADY RAILWAY COMPANY Schenectadys street transportation problemmay be said to have had its laeginning in 1886,with the granting of the francliise for theoperation of a horse car line on State , this most difficult of public utilityproblems has never assumed, in Schenectady,so great a degree of complexity as in othercities of rapid development, for the reasonthat the agency constantly working out itssolution—the Schenectady Railway Company Company; and under its management electricmotive power was installed to supplant thehorse-drawn cars, in 1891. Four years laterthe franchise and physical properties of thecompany were acquired by the present organ-ization, and the task of developing the systemand improving its service was begun. Stead-ily the lines were extended to reach every partof the city requiring transit facilities. IniQOi the lines to Albany and Troy were placedin operation; in the following year the State 12. A ami .Wm i:in[iiiiys Iliniili, Street tracks were extended across the Mo-hawk River and into Scotia; in 1904 the roadto Ballston S]):i was constructed, and in 1907was completed northward to SaratogaSprings. The Schenectady Railway Company nowoperates yj miles of road, 30 miles of whicliare within the local or city fare limit. Itsequipment includes 158 passenger cars of themost modern construction, and 60 service carsfor various other uses. The passenger trafficof the system has grown from 1, pas-sengers carried in 1900 to 25,536,242 in 1913. The companys lines in the city and suhurbsform a unified and comprehensive system, giv-ing the most efficient service and bringingevery section—residential, shopping and man-ufacturing—into the closest possible inter-communication. No less satisfactory is theservice of its interurban lines. Of these, theTroy and Albany divisions
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