. The street railway review . onnection between all the properties of the con-trolling company. Lansing & Suburban Division. The Lansing & Suburban Division, with headquarters atLansing, includes 12 miles of city track in Lansing and theinterurban lines from Lansing to St. Johns, 20 miles, to PineLake, 9 miles, and to Waverly Park, miles. In the city ofLansing the standard track is laid with 72-lb. Shanghai T-railswith continuous joints and two No. 0000 bonds. The variousinterurban lines are of standard roadbed construction of arecent type. In the city of Lansing cars are operated on 8 and
. The street railway review . onnection between all the properties of the con-trolling company. Lansing & Suburban Division. The Lansing & Suburban Division, with headquarters atLansing, includes 12 miles of city track in Lansing and theinterurban lines from Lansing to St. Johns, 20 miles, to PineLake, 9 miles, and to Waverly Park, miles. In the city ofLansing the standard track is laid with 72-lb. Shanghai T-railswith continuous joints and two No. 0000 bonds. The variousinterurban lines are of standard roadbed construction of arecent type. In the city of Lansing cars are operated on 8 and 12-minuteheadways. For this service there are fourteen 21-ft. semi-convertible, double-truck cars and fifteen 10-bench open cars. The Lansing-St. Johns line is 20 miles long and cars areoperated under 90-mmute headway. The rolling stock equip-ment for this line is similar to the new interurban cars justbeing put on the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek Division. As theterritory between Lansing and St. Johns is unoccupied except. OFFICE, SHOP AND WAREHOUSE, LANSING * SUBURBAN TRACTION CO. by the electric line, quite a satisfactory amount of freight traf-fic is handled. The Lansing & Suburban Division caters quite extensivelyto excursion traffic as it owns tw-o parks. Waverly Park,which has been mentioned, is at the terminus of a line ex-tending three and one-half miles southwest of the city. Thispark is 73 acres in area, located on the Grand River, and sup-porting a hotel and many modern amusement attractions. Atthe terminus of the Pine Lake line, nine miles from Lansing,the company owns a 10-acre property on the lake shore. This June 15, iyo6.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 323 property has been improved and there are to be found heredocks, pavilions, amusement attractions and electric launches. The locomotive car shown in the accompanying illustrationwas built at the Lansing shops for use on the various linesof the Lansing & Suburban Division. This locomotive con-sists of a standard 34-ft. stea
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