. The Street railway journal . g its route, asat Meriden and Stamford, and hasalso equipped with electricitysome of its branch lines. TheBoston & Maine Railroad Com-pany has also entered the electricrailway field, and has recentlycompleted the construction of anelectric branch between Concordand Manchester. This railway isalso notable from the fact that it is said to be the first elec-tric road of the typical sort to be built and operated by asteam railroad company as an integral part of its generalsystem. The primary idea of the steam railroad is to give apassenger a lift for a longer or shor
. The Street railway journal . g its route, asat Meriden and Stamford, and hasalso equipped with electricitysome of its branch lines. TheBoston & Maine Railroad Com-pany has also entered the electricrailway field, and has recentlycompleted the construction of anelectric branch between Concordand Manchester. This railway isalso notable from the fact that it is said to be the first elec-tric road of the typical sort to be built and operated by asteam railroad company as an integral part of its generalsystem. The primary idea of the steam railroad is to give apassenger a lift for a longer or shorter distance upon adefinitely established line of travel; it is more or less a fixedproposition, the extension of which causes great expendi-ture of money and energy. The primary idea of the more working out must necessitate the operation harmoniously,or else conjointly of steam railroads and street railways insome such way as that undertaken by the Boston & first experiment made by the Boston & Maine was. STEEP GRADE AND SHORT RADIUS CURVE NEAR ALLENTOWN the building and operating of the local system near Ports-mouth, N. H., which was supplemental to the steam road,but was operated distinctly as an independent electric rail-way company. The Concord & Manchester branch, how-ever, is practically a part of the companys steam railroadsystem, and all the safeguards that are provided for thesteam road have been utilized in this electric branch. One of the obstacles which has stood in the way of theconsolidation of steam roads and electric roads or the 922 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 23. operating of electric roads by steam-railroad managementshas been the charter rights of the railroads and the re-strictive laws of most States in regard to public New Hampshire, however, in 1895, an act was passed steam railroads and existing street railways, but this partic-ular difficulty has been overthrown in part in the case of theConcord Street Railway, operating
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