Identifier: electricrailway371911newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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by the Rock Island Southern Railwayand the Chicago, Aurora & De Kalb Railroad. The RockIsland Southern line consists of a 50.2-mile, 11,000-volt sub-stantially built freight and passenger road from Rock Islandto Monmouth, 111. A 19-mile section of this track is a -branchof the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific steam railroad system,which the interurban company has leased for a term of 25years. In constructing the new roadbed lately put into opera-tion 1,300,000 cu. yd. of earthwork was handled in 31 miles anda number of large bridges and trestles were built. One of thesteel bridges is 625 ft. long and 75 ft. high. The Chicago,Aurora & De Kalb Railroad during the year electrified a30-mile gasoline-operated line between Aurora, De Kalb andCortland. The ceremonies attending the dedication of the McKinleyBridge at St. Louis probably attracted as widespread attentionfrom the public as any piece of electric railway constructionwork consummated during 1910. This bridge was formally
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January 7, 1911.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 21 opened Nov. 10 in the presence of the Governors of Illinois andMissouri and many other people of commercial and politicalnote. The entrance to St. Louis of the Illinois Traction Sys-tem over its bridge and new line within that city has beenmade possible by constructing the most extensive terminalproject ever undertaken by an interurban railway, the generaland detail features of which have been described fully innumerous articles presented by this paper during the pastyear. The total cost of the project, which includes the Mc-Kinlev Bridge; 10 miles of double track, largely on privateright-of-way through congested territory; a 14,000-kw generat-ing station ; the improvement of a 24-acre carload freight ter-minal and the construction of passenger and express stationswithin St. Louis, is approximately $7,000,000. Since the com-pletion of the bridge link between Illinois and Missouri thetraffic passing in and out of the St. Louis terminal haselectricrailway371911newy

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