. Electric railway journal . fway where a car can be run safely at high speed. The western terminus is at Pullman, 111., where, for thepresent, passengers will transfer from and to the subur-ban trains of the Illinois Central Railroad, which run atintervals of 40 minutes to and from the heart of overhead footbridge has been constructed here for theconvenience of the public, connecting the interurban plat-form with the suburban platform of the Illinois CentralRailroad and permitting joint use of the depot at PullmanThe train schedules are arranged so that cars of the newroad make clo
. Electric railway journal . fway where a car can be run safely at high speed. The western terminus is at Pullman, 111., where, for thepresent, passengers will transfer from and to the subur-ban trains of the Illinois Central Railroad, which run atintervals of 40 minutes to and from the heart of overhead footbridge has been constructed here for theconvenience of the public, connecting the interurban plat-form with the suburban platform of the Illinois CentralRailroad and permitting joint use of the depot at PullmanThe train schedules are arranged so that cars of the newroad make close connections with the Illinois Central sub-urban trains, offering quick and convenient service to thedowntown district of Chicago at the Randolph and VanBuren Street stations of the steam road. ROADBED AND TRACK The roadbed has been constructed according to modernsteam railroad practice; a maximum gradient of 2 percent exists in but one place, which is the approach to asteam railroad crossing. Outside of cities the maximum. Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend—Map of Route Traversed Between South Bend and Pullman, Showing also Con-nections with Other Interurban Lines in Northern Indiana and Illinois The financing of the railway was undertaken and com-pleted by Cleveland capitalists representing several of theleading trust companies in that city. A syndicate man-agement was formed, with M. H. Wilson, vice-president ofthe Cleveland Trust Company, as the head. During therecent financial depression, when nearly all railway con-struction was either greatly restricted or entirely sus-pended, the work on this line was carried forward withoutdelay, and all obligations were taken care of promptly. The construction of the roadbed, inclusive of bridges,was done by a construction company organized for The construction of the electrical distributionsystem, power house equipment and buildings was super-vised by the Cleveland Construction Company, of Cleve-land, Ohio, as consulti
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