. Electric railway journal . ork hasbeen well justified by the results, as it is possible forcars to go in and out without interference. The ques-tion of area did not enter seriously here as the buildingin its present position on the site was inherited by thefreight department and there was ample space on one side for the selected typeof special-work the Rhode IslandCompany went into thefreight business nearlyeighteen years ago therehas been a consistent anduniform growth averag-ing about $22,000 peryear. Freight service isfurnished over 400 milesof track through * eightycommunity
. Electric railway journal . ork hasbeen well justified by the results, as it is possible forcars to go in and out without interference. The ques-tion of area did not enter seriously here as the buildingin its present position on the site was inherited by thefreight department and there was ample space on one side for the selected typeof special-work the Rhode IslandCompany went into thefreight business nearlyeighteen years ago therehas been a consistent anduniform growth averag-ing about $22,000 peryear. Freight service isfurnished over 400 milesof track through * eightycommunity centers. Thedistribution of these, notto scale, is shown in oneof the figures reproducedin this article. Thefreight-car mileage madelast year was 3S5,000,which is approaching thefigure of 1000 car-milesper mile of track. Thefreight income is $870per mile of track. The department hasnow in service thirty-fourregular motor expresscars, three electric loco-motives, six box trailerswhich are used for mis-cellaneous freight such. ristolRocky Point Station Rocky Point NGrounds East Greenwich Narraqansett Pier•(See View ) Narragansett Pier( Div. Sta.) 1004 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 51, No. 21 as lumber, nineteen smallgondola cars, three woodhopper cars, five gondolacoal cars and three 30-tonwood hopper coal cars(used on the Sea Viewdivision). As the coalbusiness has fallen offconsiderably due to em-bargoes the coal cars arenow being used princi-pally for handling ashesfrom the power plants tofills. All of the expresscars are motor cars ex-cept that a few trailersare used in outlyingregions. The Rhode Isl-and Company handlesNew Haven M. C. on per diem rates, collect, but owns no M. C. B. interchange equip-ment itself. The company also interchanges cars withother lines, which it can do being under the jurisdic-tion of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Regularfreight service is given between Boston and Providence,the cars coming and going by night. Two of
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