Identifier: streetrailwayrev13amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ounding territory is beingrapidly developed, and if present indications prove true, Raleighwill soon be a commercial center of no insignificant importance. Thepresent population, including suburbs, is alxnit 25,000. The street railwuy and electric lighting business of the city iscontrolled by one company, the Raleigh Electric Co., which is di-rected by progressive business men of the city, who have in contem-plation important extensions to the companys activities. The elec-tric railw.iy system comprises 4/j miles of track, which is arrangedin three single track lines that radiate to three distinct districts ofthe city, and meet at a common triangle in front of the State Capitolbuildings. It requires three cars to fill the regular schedule, each carrunning over each of the three lines in turn, and meeting the otherIwo cars at the triangle every .^o minutes. The power house and the car barns of the company were destroyedby fire on Dec. 31, 1896, anil the plant is now housed in a wondi-n
Image caption: Triangle at State Capitol, Raleigh, N. C.

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