. The Street railway journal . TROLLEY LINE NEAR MT. MGREGOR respectively, is made -for cars run into Troy and Albany. Ifdesired, special cars are run in trains drawn by an electric loco-motive ... • The company has a traffic arrangement with the United EORT WILLIAM HENRY HOTEL AT LAKE GEORGE soon to complete arrangements whereby the two sections of theSaratoga division will be connected. At present the system is operated in three divisions. Onedivision extends from Troy; that city is entered over the tracksof the United Traction Company. The line extends to FortEdward, including the southern
. The Street railway journal . TROLLEY LINE NEAR MT. MGREGOR respectively, is made -for cars run into Troy and Albany. Ifdesired, special cars are run in trains drawn by an electric loco-motive ... • The company has a traffic arrangement with the United EORT WILLIAM HENRY HOTEL AT LAKE GEORGE soon to complete arrangements whereby the two sections of theSaratoga division will be connected. At present the system is operated in three divisions. Onedivision extends from Troy; that city is entered over the tracksof the United Traction Company. The line extends to FortEdward, including the southern portion of the main line and theGreenwich branch. A second division comprises the southernportion of the Saratoga branch, and includes the spur line toSaratoga Lake. The third division includes the northern por-tion of the Saratoga branch and that portion of the main lineextending from Fort Edward to Warrensburg. Cars alternate. FORT WILLIAM HENRY DOCK Traction Company to run its cars through to the center of Al-bany, but at present this is notdone. Formerly the company operated an express business over the August 29, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 293 entire system, but at present this is not in effect. Freight carsfrom steam roads are handled over portions of the system be-tween Mechanicsville and Glens Falls. These are handled forthe factories along the line, and switching charges are only portion of the system over which regular express busi-ness is conducted is between Greenwich and Schuylerville. Twocars per day are operated over this portion. The reason for thepartial abandonment of this important branch of the businessis the loss sustained by the company in the recent strike, whenthe road was practically tied-up for nearly two months. Beforethe strike, plans had been made to rebuild and improve thesystem in many ways, but the loss occasioned by these labortroubles has prevented the execution o
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