The Street Railway Journal
July i8, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxi NEWS OF THE WEEK CONSTRUCTION NOTES pleted from Crawfordsville to Jamestown. Steel for 20 miles is arriving. The Lafayette line, the Danville extension and the coal road will be built next BIRMINGHAM, ALA.—The Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Com- year. This will give Indianapolis two electric lines to Lafayette. It is not unlikely that the coal road into Parke County will be pushed on to Rock pany has begun work on the Glen Iris branch, about a mile long. ville, where it will connect with the Danville Company's line into Clinton and BIRMINGHAM, ALA. At a meeting of the committees from the com- — Terre Haute. mercial bodies of Huntsville and Birmingham and intervening towns, held in The Muncie, Hartford Fort Railway Company Birmingham, to take steps for building a direct line of railway between Bir- MUNCIE, IND.— & Wayne has just begun schedule service on 30 miles of road from Muncie, through mingham and Huntsville, it was determined to appoint a joint committee of Eaton to Hartford City and Montpelier. Cars had been running irregularly twelve to arrange all preliminaries looking to making a survey for the route, since May 1. There are no curves and the grades are 1 per cent outside the securing rights of way, etc. The special committee is made up as follows: For cities where fifty-year franchises are held. The 40-ft. right of way outside the Huntsville, W. I. Wellman, Ben P. Hunt, Oscar Hundley, Milton Humes, cities is outright the Seventy-pound rails, oak ties, D.
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