. The Street railway journal . eNew York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroads have alreadydeveloped their plans for operating some portion of their throughtrain service and all of their suburban train service in and out ofNew York city by electricity. The trains of both of these roadswill reach the heart of the city underground through operation through the tunnels is not a question ofeconomy but a question of necessity. These developments, beingthe first attempted upon a large scale by any of the steam roads,will be watched with much concern. They will furnish an ex-ample f
. The Street railway journal . eNew York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroads have alreadydeveloped their plans for operating some portion of their throughtrain service and all of their suburban train service in and out ofNew York city by electricity. The trains of both of these roadswill reach the heart of the city underground through operation through the tunnels is not a question ofeconomy but a question of necessity. These developments, beingthe first attempted upon a large scale by any of the steam roads,will be watched with much concern. They will furnish an ex-ample from which other roads can work out their own problemson a strictly economical basis. 704 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 17. Union Interurban Passenger Station at Toledo. In a number of cities where there are several interurban roads plans are being made, or have been perfected, for a combinedunion passenger and freight station from which all interurban carswill radiate. In two or three instances these stations are to be. UNION STATION FOR INTERURBAN ROADS ENTERING TOLEDO fine structures, comparing favorably with steam union of this kind have been presented from time to time inthese pages, and the details of less pretentious undertakings havealso been published. There has been no recog-nized standard for this work; in fact, there hasbeen a wide difference of opinion as to the bestplan for handling this class of business. In Toledo the interurban companies decided,after canvassing the situation, to separate ratherthan combine the two facilities; to locate theunion passenger station in the retail shoppingdistrict and the freight station in the jobbingand manufacturing section. It was believed thatthe combining of the two would work incon-venience for both classes of patrons, as pas-sengers do not like the delays, noise, dust andconfusion consequent upon the loading andunloading of freight. Moreover, it was hardlypossible to find a location which would be c
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