. The Street railway journal . STATE STREET AND POST OFFICE, ERIE road is about 100,000. An average total of about 4000 passen-gers daily, or 1,250,000 annually, is carried, with ordinarily fivecars runing at a time. These start hourly from each terminal,the road being single track, and pass one another at long, prop-erly spaced turnouts, of which there are ten. The schedule. LONG VIADUCT AT CONNEAUT 80 per cent of the line is on private right of way), and that insome parts the track is exposed to sweeping winds, which givetrouble in winter by drifting snow over the rails. Both of thesefaults
. The Street railway journal . STATE STREET AND POST OFFICE, ERIE road is about 100,000. An average total of about 4000 passen-gers daily, or 1,250,000 annually, is carried, with ordinarily fivecars runing at a time. These start hourly from each terminal,the road being single track, and pass one another at long, prop-erly spaced turnouts, of which there are ten. The schedule. LONG VIADUCT AT CONNEAUT 80 per cent of the line is on private right of way), and that insome parts the track is exposed to sweeping winds, which givetrouble in winter by drifting snow over the rails. Both of thesefaults will be corrected as rapidly as experience suggestsremedies and circumstances allow their application. The numerous views taken along the line give some idea ofthe variety of scenery passed through—urban and rural, flat time required to make the trip from end to end of the line is2 hours and 20 minutes. This makes the average speed, in-cluding stops for passengers and waiting on switches, p. h. OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTIONThe overhead construction throughout is of very substantialcharacter and has in all possible details been arranged to secure February 6, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 193 permanence both of alignment and operation. The road isequipped with double trolleys from end to end, which aredivided into three sections by section insulators, located at thepo
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