. Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others .. . couplers; and has built freight loops around the larger cities. HISTORY OF ELECTRIC TRACTION 37 Illinois Traction Company, on its 600 miles of interurban road, operates 18express motor cars, 40 express trailers, 30 electric locomotives, 25 grain cars, and 500coal gondolas of 80,000 pounds capacity. Freight trains carrying high-class freightrun in four- to eight-car trains. Coal aggregating 1500 tons is hauled daily. Low-grade commodities are hauled i
. Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others .. . couplers; and has built freight loops around the larger cities. HISTORY OF ELECTRIC TRACTION 37 Illinois Traction Company, on its 600 miles of interurban road, operates 18express motor cars, 40 express trailers, 30 electric locomotives, 25 grain cars, and 500coal gondolas of 80,000 pounds capacity. Freight trains carrying high-class freightrun in four- to eight-car trains. Coal aggregating 1500 tons is hauled daily. Low-grade commodities are hauled in carload lots. The traffic is largely between , Springfield, Peoria, Champaign, and Danville. Thirty cars of package freightare taken in and out of St. Louis daily. The service between these points is so muchquicker than that given by steam roads that it competes successfully even when thesteam roads have the short-line mileage. The freight traffic is, for the most part,confined to localized business, centering around the larger cities, for which it receivesa higher rate ( cents) per ton-mile or double that for thru Fig. 8.—Rock Island Southern Railway Express. Car. Freight loops have been built around Decatur, Springfield, and Edwardsville, freight terminal at St. Louis covers 24 acres of land. Joint traffic agreements exist between this company and the Chicago & EasternIllinois, and other intersecting steam roads. Foreign cars are handled on the usualper diem basis, under M. C. B. rules, and the company is allowed the same division ofthe rates as a steam road similarly situated, the originating or delivering road receiv-ing at least 25 per cent, of the total freight charges. This road now handles 3,000,000 tons of freight, and the revenues therefrom are$500,000 per annum, or 20 per cent, of its gross earnings. This represents newbusiness. The road is an important feeder and distributor for the steam roads. Spokane & Inland Empire R, R., with
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