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	Chapter 09. Gilbert Elevated Railroad and Rapid Transit Commission of 1875
		By railroad men the so-called "rush hours" in New York are known as "commission hours," because of the fact that "commission trains" as provided for by the Commission of 1875 were operated at a cheaper fare in those hours.
		It was practically broken down and elevated roads were in bad odor; that was before the Court of Appeals had affirmed the validity of the elevated road legislation.
		The evolution of the elevated railroad from the crude conception of Harvey in 1866 to the successful operation of 1879 was attended by revolutions within the companies themselves.
	www.nycsubway.org /articles/fifty_years_09.html (4695 words)

	New York Elevated Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It was a standard gauge railroad under the control of Jay Gould from which the narrow gauge South Park Railroad acquired six passenger cars in 1880.
		The New York Elevated Railroad Company was born 27 October 1872, as a reorganization of the bankrupt West Side Patented Elevated Railway Company, the first attempt anywhere at building an elevated rapid transit line.
		The old charters of these firms were thereby reconfirmed by the RTC, which also gave them permission to construct and expand their lines on the West Side, and to build new lines on the East Side along 2nd and 3rd Avenues, all of which were to extend to the Harlem River.
	www.ironhorse129.com /rollingstock/CandS/dsp-passenger/nyelrail1.htm (1131 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad
		Initial plans for the railroad called for the construction of a four-track, east-west main line generally along Congress Street from the west side of downtown to a point just west of Ashland Avenue on the city's west side.
		In 1911, under the leadership of electric utility tycoon Samuel Insull, all of Chicago's elevated railroads, including the Metropolitan West Side 'L', were unified to form the Chicago Elevated Railroads.
		The consolidation of the elevated had much to do with the public's growing desire to transfer between separate elevated railroads without having to pay a second fare to do so.
	chicago.urban-history.org /scrapbks/elevated/west1.htm (1199 words)

	Chapter 07. Inception of the Elevated Railroads
		As before stated Harvey at the session of 1866 had obtained the passage of an amendment to the General Railroad law allowing him and his associates to form an incorporation for the purpose of building an elevated railroad to be operated according to his patents by means of cables driven by stationary engines.
		After the New York Elevated Railroad Company had taken over the property it obtained the passage of an act by the Legislature, confirming its acquisition of the rights granted to the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway Company and authorizing it to continue and complete the railroad thereby granted.
		This act required the New York Elevated Railroad Company to construct and complete at least one track within five years, under the supervision of the Commissioners named by the Governor, who were continued, vacancies in their number to be filled by the Governor.
	www.nycsubway.org /articles/fifty_years_07.html (4197 words)

	HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day
		Cartoonist W. Rogers envisions an elevated railroad traveling from Manhattan into the mouth of the recently opened Statue of Liberty.
		The artist may be fearful (notice the statue's skull-like face) that the expansion of the elevated railroad system threatens to mar the beauty of the city.
		In the mid-1880s, competition from the elevated railroads led the owners of horse-car companies to desperate measures, including bribing state legislators and city aldermen.
	www.harpweek.com /09Cartoon/RelatedCartoon.asp?Month=May&Date=28 (633 words)

	Beach Pneumatic : 11
		The New York Elevated Railroad began in January to collect signatures on a ‘memorial’ to be brought to the legislature in favor of a second track and expanded routes.
		The proposed Gilbert Elevated Railway as of 1874.
		The Lackawanna railroad, which extended to Buffalo with through connections to Chicago, was one of the several trunk railways that terminated at Hudson River tidewater, unable to cross by rail to the city.
	www.columbia.edu /~brennan/beach/chapter11.html (8548 words)

	Steam On The Alley “L” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Elevated Forney’s were considered “double-ended” locomotives because they were intended to operate as much in forward as reverse (the South Side’s terminals were stub-ended affairs).
		The Loop also carried trains belonging to the city’s other “L” companies: the Lake Street Elevated Railroad (which had converted to electric traction in 1896 after just three years of steam operation) and the Metropolitan West Side Elevated (opened as an electric railroad in 1895).
		In 1900, trains of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad were added to the mix.
	www.discoverlivesteam.com /magazine/42.html (1095 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: History - Lake Street ''L'' Chronology (1888-1924)
		Also approved are franchises for the construction of a downtown loop using a back alley route and a westward extension of the line from 40th Avenue to 52nd Avenue in newly annexed territory from the Town of Cicero.
		A clause stipulates that should any of the authorized lines be leased to an existing Chicago elevated whose tracks terminate at the Chicago-Cicero border (obviously referring to the Lake Street Elevated), a through fare of five cents be charged to any point on Wabash Avenue north of Van Buren Street.
		The city's four "L" companies (the South Side Elevated Railroad, the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, the Chicago and Oak Park Elevated Railway and the Northwestern) form a "voluntary association" under the name of the Chicago Elevated Railways Collateral Trust (CER).
	www.chicago-l.org /history/chron_lake.html (2489 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: Stations - Madison/Wabash
		The Union Elevated Railroad, backed by transit magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes, was incorporated on November 22, 1894 to construct a loop around the central business district, connecting the three elevated lines that until 1897 ended at individual terminals.
		Lawyers for Schlesinger and Mayer obtained a restraining order against the city to allow work to be completed, but to belabor the point the Union Elevated announced that the actions of the city had violated the city's own ordinances, thus excusing the elevated from continuing to pay the city the compensation required under their franchise.
		As part of the construction work, the entire elevated structure was to be rebuilt from Lake to Washington Streets and the supports down the middle of Wabash would've been replaced by columns anchored along the curbs.
	www.chicago-l.org /stations/madison-wabash.html (2225 words)

	The San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railroad
		Two months later, the San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railroad Company was incorporated “for the purpose of constructing a railroad from some convenient point in the City of Los Angeles to the town of Monrovia.” The capital stock of the new corporation was set at $250,000, and all of it was eventually sold.
		One inducement the railroad used to get the support of the people living along the route of the railroad was to promise that depots would be built at frequent intervals.
		The railroad was unable to purchase a right‑of‑way from Boyle Heights into Los Angeles along its original route, so the City Council granted another franchise from Wabash Avenue to the corner of Aliso and Los Angeles Streets.
	www.erha.org /sangabrielvalleyrapidtransit.html (2297 words)

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		Elevated Railway spanned Kaw River [The KCity, Kansan, 01/05/1986]
		The idea of the elevated railway came from the united efforts of D.M. Edgerton of St. Louis and Robert Gillham, both engineers and railroad builders.
		The "elevated railway" was also known as the "L" road.
	www.kckpl.lib.ks.us /kscoll/lochist/thennow/TN39.htm (842 words)

	THE NEW TERMINALS OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
		The bridge station of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad is integral with the bridge station, and is built by the bridge and leased by the elevated railroad.
		The Kings County Elevated Railroad is provided with structures of its own outside of the bridge station.
		On the upper floor will be the tracks and two elevated platforms, as shown in the illustration, and there will be an intermediate floor on which will be located the toilet rooms and the ticket sellers' boxes.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/bbmter.Html (743 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		The loop consists of an elevated structure in the streets encircling the central portion of the business district of the city, upon which are laid tracks for the passage of the elevated trains of all of the defendant companies completely around the central portion of the business district.
		Large upright columns supporting the elevated structure were placed just inside the curb in front of the premises and rendered the premises less accessible from the street.
		He testified that the damages to the property from the construction of the elevated structure, and the operation of the trains thereon, amounted to $81,999, being 15 per cent.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=247&page=357 (2626 words)

	CTA RAPID TRANSIT HISTORY
		All original rapid transit lines were elevated, except for a few outlying segments at street level.
		All routes used a conventional elevated structure, except for a ballasted embankment north of Lawrence Ave.
		At first, the various elevated lines generally operated simply between downtown Chicago and the outlying terminals.
	hometown.aol.com /ctapacefan/ctarhist.html (378 words)

	TaiwanHeadlines - Society - Elevated rail service begins - a little late (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Taiwan Railway Administration's first elevated railroad -- running from Xizhi, Taipei County to Wudu, Keelung -- got off to a bad start on Sunday as the first train scheduled to leave the Xizhi station at 6 was delayed for almost 25 minutes.
		On account of the elevated railroad, seven railroad crossings on the original route from Taipei to Keeling could be canceled, according to the TRA.
		About five kilometers of track were elevated so trains would not have to be suspended when Xizhi areas suffer floods due to typhoons, and eight-hectare space would be spared to be used as commercial center, park, square and a parking area.
	english.www.gov.tw /TaiwanHeadlines/index.jsp?categid=10&recordid=93336 (583 words)

	PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD ELEVATED TRACK CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS, 1918-1923
		On 1 January 1917, through more mergers with the Vandalia Railroad and other smaller lines, the company was reorganized as the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, which came to be operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad on 1 January 1921.
		Railroad tracks in the city, especially those surrounding Union Station and running south of the Warehouse District, created the dual problems of traffic congestion and public safety.
		This collection contains photographs that document two railroad construction projects: the construction of railroad track elevations and facilities in the mile-square area of Indianapolis between 1918 and 1922, and a track elevation project in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1923.
	www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/P0383.html (1344 words)

	STREET RAILWAYS
		In 1886, Yerkes formed the North Chicago Street Railroad Co., which acquired the North Chicago City Railway Co. And in 1887, Yerkes formed the West Chicago Street Railroad Co., which acquired the Chicago West Division Railway Co. Yerkes thus gained control of all of the street railways on Chicago's north and west sides.
		In 1893, Yerkes moved into the elevated railroad field as the principal backer in the incorporation of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Co. Service began in 1900.
		In 1897, Yerkes acquired the Suburban Railroad Co., whose streetcars had served the western suburbs and connected with the competing Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad Co. After gaining control, the Suburban Railroad Co. routes were changed to connect instead with his Lake Street Elevated Railroad.
	hometown.aol.com /ctapacefan/companys.html (510 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Selected Articles From Manufacturer and Builder
		It is elevated on arches like a tipped-over U. They have power to build depots, platforms, &c., and the legislature appointed a commission, composed of Henry G. Stebbins, General Gilmore, and others, with power to definitely establish the line of the road.
		The latter plan is now in quite successful operation by the so-called one-legged railroad through Greenwich street and Ninth avenue, from the Battery to Thirty-second street, a distance of nearly 4 miles, and is hourly made by two or three small trains on this road in 15 minutes.
		The Greenwich Elevated Railway, which at first was a total failure as long as several stationary engines were used, moving the cars by means of a wire rope, has become a decided success since the employment of small locomotives, each pulling two or three quite long cars.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccmanbl1.html (2564 words)

	TBO.com - News From The Associated Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The detour will add hours to interstate passenger trips and reroute rail traffic through downtown Sacramento, a move that is expected to clog the state capital with freight trains day and night.
		No trains were involved in the blaze that began late Thursday and was fueled by the creosote-soaked trestle.
		The cause of the fire was under investigation, and Union Pacific began demolishing a quarter-mile-long stretch of the trestle Friday.
	hosted.ap.org /dynamic/stories/R/RAILROAD_FIRE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-03-16-02-43-47 (367 words)

	Rivanna Chapter, NRHS - This Month in Railroad History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It was the oldest of the long railroad tunnels still in use at the end of the steam era.
		After a violent clash between railroad strikers and State troops in Pittsburgh, a battle and riot ensues in which 2000 freight cars are burned and $10,000,000 in railroad property is destroyed.
		Railroad strike expands from coast to coast, becoming the first nationwide strike against the railroads.
	avenue.org /nrhs/histjul.htm (1570 words)

	Oddities - MEIGS ELEVATED RAILWAY
		It therefore seems peculiar to be called upon to describe a new method of railroading designed as a whole by one man—a new railroad from the ballast to the top of the smokestack, from the pilot to the coupler on the last car.
		The engineer is on an elevated platform in the front part of the engine, the fireman being at the rear end.
		As an elevated road in cities, the permanent structure presents far less obstruction to light and air than the usual form.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/odmeig.Html (1786 words)

	Railroad Clipart ETC
		A year after the Enterprise sailed for India, the first railroad in the United States was opened in Massachusetts, from the Quincy quarries to tide water.
		Now began the construction of railroads in various directions; in the next twenty years nearly ten thousand miles of road were built.
		Railroad Trail "Trail between Peter Cooper's locomotive Tom Thumb and one of Stockton's and Stokes' horse cars."—E. Benjamin Andrews, 1895
	etc.usf.edu /clipart/galleries/transportation/railroad.htm (791 words)

	Gotham Gazette: Turning The High Line Elevated Railroad Into An Unconventional Park
		The State of New York and CSX Transportation, the railroad that owns the line, joined the city in petitioning the federal Surface Transportation Board to rail-bank the line, which would transfer the easement to the city and allow its use as public space.
		Reflecting the classic beauty of the city it overlooks, the promenade is a linear formal garden, a path bordered and interrupted by neatly edged beds of flowers, shrubs, and trees.
		Previously, she was the editor of the Audubon Activist, a news journal for environmental action published by the National Audubon Society, and an editor at The New York Botanical Garden.
	www.gothamgazette.com /print/1193 (1355 words)

	America on the Move \| The 1890s-1920s: Transit Shapes the City
		By 1900 there were at least 17 separate street railway companies, four elevated companies, and a number of interurbans, each with their own stations, stops, equipment, and fares.
		In large part, it was the choices made by the transit owners that both centralized and decentralized urban development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		One of the consequences of early transit competition in Chicago was the centralization of commerce, industry, and services in the heart of the city’s central business district, known then and now as the “Loop.” The Loop was initially defined in 1882, by the tracks of a cable streetcar turnaround.
	americanhistory.si.edu /onthemove/themes/story_45_1.html (930 words)

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