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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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ient for handling the traffic. This in-crease of more than 100 regular cars has been broughtabout partly by the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, andmore largely by the phenomenal growth of the city. The shopping and office district of Seattle is about fiveblocks wide and a mile long, the main thoroughfares of whichrun parallel to Puget Sound. This district is shut in on itseastern side by a hill, also parallel with the Sound. Thecompany has trunk lines on the four principal business streetsthrough this district, and his three cable cross-town lines,which climb the steep hill separating the business district fromthe principal residence portion of the city in the rear. Onaccount of these topographical conditions the traffic on thestreet car lines within the business district is especially heavy.Headways of 27 and 30 seconds are necessary on the moreimportant lines. The cross-town cable lines, which serve to carry the peopleup the steep grades to transfer points with electric lines, also
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October 2, 1909.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 535 serving a residence district, are known as the Yesler Way,James Street and Madison Street lines. On the MadisonStreet cable line there is a headway of 65 seconds and gradesup to 15 per cent are negotiated. This line is about 2.25miles long and 32 cars are operated. The cars are 29 ft.long, seat 44 passengers and are equipped with slipper trackbrakes. On an average heavy day these cars handle 28,000passengers. The cables used in this service cost about $8,000and last, ordinarily, about six months. During the rush hoursthe regular conductor on these cable cars is assisted by a hillconductor, who rides with the car and helps to collect faresuntil the top of the hill leading out of the business district isreached. The hill conductor uses a portable register and theregular conductor the permanently installed car register. The Seattle Electric Company operates a sight-seeing car,which makes two 26-mile trips daily. The features of mostinterest

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