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Manufacturer and Builder
Volume 19, Issue 10
October 1887, p.240

Q. 3990. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.—Can you furnish me with a list of places in the United States where electric railways have been introduced, and, If possible, give the system used in each case?—J. C. B., Glen Mills, Pa.

Answer. The following list is probably nearly accurate. There are many localities in which short experimental lines, upon various systems, are laid down, and are operated for the purpose of testing their effectiveness. This is notably the case in the large cities, scarcely one of which cannot count one or several such lines. Not having been formally adopted and employed, these have not been included in the subjoined list. The cities and towns in which the electric railway is actually in operation, are given below:

Appleton, Wis.—Appleton Electric Street Railway; overhead conductor, four and a half miles, five motorcars; Van Depoele system.

Baltimore, Md.—Union Passenger Railway Company; overhead conductor; Daft system.

Denver, Col.—Denver Tramway Company; conduit, four miles; Short-Nesmith series system.

Binghamton, N. Y.—Washington Street & State Asylum Electric Railroad; overhead conductor, five and a half miles; Van Depoele system.

Detroit, Mich.—Detroit Electric Railway Company; overhead conductor, two miles, four motor cars; Van Depoele system. Highland Park Railway Company; overhead conductors, three miles, two motor cars.

Gratiot, Mich.—Gratiot Electric Railway Company; overhead conductor, one motor car; Van Depoele system.

Kansas City, Mo.—Kansas City Electric Railway Company; Henry system.

Lima, O.—Lima Street Railway Motor & Power Company; overhead conductor, six and a half miles, seven motor cars; Van Depoele system.

Los Angeles, Cal.—Los Angeles Electric Railway Company; overhead conductor, five miles, four motor cars; Daft system.

Montgomery, Ala.-Capital City Electric Street Railway Company; overhead conductor, eleven miles, twenty motor cars; Van Depoele system.

Port Huron, Mich.—Port Huron Electric Railway company; overhead conductors, two and three-quarter miles, three motorcars; Van Depoele system.

Scranton, Pa.—Scranton Suburban Railway Company; overhead conductor, two and a quarter miles, three motor cars; Van Depoele system.

Windsor, Canada.—Windsor & Walkerville Electric Railway Company; overhead conductor, one and a half miles, one motor car; Van Depoele system.

In the following places lilies are being constructed, or under contract: Ansonia, Conn.; Asbury Park, N. J.; Allegheny, Pa.; Dayton, O.; Harrisburg, Pa.; Lakeside, O.; Los Angeles, Cal.; Middletown, Conn.; Mansfield, O.; New York, N. Y.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Richmond, Va.; San Diego, Cal.; St. Catharines, Can.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Worcester, Mass.; Woonsocket, R. I.; Wilmington, Del.; Wichita, Kan.