. Electric railway journal . sion, Kalamazoo to Jackson,there are four round trips per day. One of these is anAdams Express run, although this train also handlessolid cars to and from terminals. Each train consistsof from one to five interurban trailers. Two runs arein the day time and the other two at night. On the northeastern division, Jackson to Lansing, tworound trips are made daily, one during the day and oneat night, both doing local work. There is also one roundtrip each day between Lansing and Owosso, and be-tween Lansing and St. Johns. The freight motivepower of this line consists of
. Electric railway journal . sion, Kalamazoo to Jackson,there are four round trips per day. One of these is anAdams Express run, although this train also handlessolid cars to and from terminals. Each train consistsof from one to five interurban trailers. Two runs arein the day time and the other two at night. On the northeastern division, Jackson to Lansing, tworound trips are made daily, one during the day and oneat night, both doing local work. There is also one roundtrip each day between Lansing and Owosso, and be-tween Lansing and St. Johns. The freight motivepower of this line consists of four steel, 55-ton freightmotor cars, each capable of pulling a 500-ton trailingload and easily handling ten loaded freight cars, whichis the usual length of train on this system betweenGrand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Battle Creek. Electric Freight Terminal Requiredat Toledo Toledo, Ohio, is a very important interurban electricfreight center. Many cars from Michigan routed topoints in Ohio and Indiana, go through this terminal,. ILLINOIS TRACTION SYSTEM—ONE OF EIGHTEEN 63-TONELECTRIC FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES v/hich at present is greatly congested and in no respectcommensurate with the importance of the traffic han-dled. At the same time there exists in Toledo a large steamfreight terminal station belonging to the Toledo Termi-nal Railroad Company which is unused for the pur-poses for which it was built. Its location is such thatit could adequately serve all electric lines entering thecity. A part of the station could be used for pas-senger service. If this structure were released for the
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