. The street railway review . cover damages. EVERETT PRESIDENT OF CLEVELANDELECTRIC. THE MILCREEK VALLEY STREET RAILROAD. The Millcreek Valley Street Railroad Company owns one of thesuburban lines running northward from Cincinnati, and operateseight miles of double track, one terminus being at the ZoologicalGarden in Cincinnati and the other at Lockland, in Hamilton coun-ty. The line passes through the villages of St. Bernard, ElmwoodPlace, Carthage, Hartwell, Maplcwood, Wyoming to have been completed and will be carried out this spring forextending the lines through Reading and
. The street railway review . cover damages. EVERETT PRESIDENT OF CLEVELANDELECTRIC. THE MILCREEK VALLEY STREET RAILROAD. The Millcreek Valley Street Railroad Company owns one of thesuburban lines running northward from Cincinnati, and operateseight miles of double track, one terminus being at the ZoologicalGarden in Cincinnati and the other at Lockland, in Hamilton coun-ty. The line passes through the villages of St. Bernard, ElmwoodPlace, Carthage, Hartwell, Maplcwood, Wyoming to have been completed and will be carried out this spring forextending the lines through Reading and Glendalc to Hamilton,and the company will serve a territory containing over 60,000 in-habitants without counting Cincinnati or Hamilton. In addition tothe foregoing it is intended to rebuild the tracks, put in completeoverhead construction and build a new power station of 3,000-h. The car here illustrated is the standard type and is one of 18 oper-ated by the company. Each car is 26 ft. over all with 18 ft. body,. MILCREEK VALLEY CAR. side seats, upholstered in plush and heated with H. W. Johns panelheaters. The cars are painted a dark green, the standard coachcolor of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com-pany, and lettered in gold and aluminum. The trucks are the Peck-ham No. 7 D, the Cincinnati type of heavy truck fitted with theKilgour safety brakes. The cars can be operated either by a singleor double trolley, to conform with the overhead work in Cincin-nati. Each car is equipped with two Johnson No. 22 motors and isrun at a speed of 12 miles an hour in the city but this may be in-creased to 30 miles in the less populous districts. They go up the9 per cent grade on Vine street at nine miles per hour. At the Zoological Garden the cars are received by the employesof the Cincinnati Street Railway Company and run to Fountainsquare in the heart of the business district. They are returned tothe Zoological Garden and there taken charge of by the regularcrew
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