Identifier: electricrailway341909newy Title: Electric railway journal Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Electric railroads Publisher: [New York] McGraw Hill Pub. Co Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: to the suggestednew department his advice and general oversight. If aman with the proper qualifications can be secured to man-age the details there is no question as to the ultimate suc-cess of the plan. He must be a practical railway man.who is in hearty sympathy with the desire of young menfor advancement and education. He will need tact andpatience, and will find it necessary to frequently visit hispupils and their employers in order to maintain a closepersonal interest in them. He must be one who has workedin the shops and car barns as a boy. and who can think andfeel as boys do. 6 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXIV. No. i. FREIGHT HANDLING ON THE METROPOLITAN DIVISIONOF THE TORONTO & YORK RADIAL RAILWAY The Toronto & York Radial Railway owns the interurbanlines which radiate from Toronto north, east and west.These roads are operated as separate divisions under thenames Metropolitan, Scarboro and Mimico, but are con-trolled from the main office at Toronto. The passenger

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. i.—Metropolitan Division, Toronto & York Radial Railway—LaterType of Motor Express Car with Bide Windows service of all three lines is substantially alike, but theMetropolitan division also does a heavy freight and deliv-ery business, the development of which has been so re-markable that it offers the opportunity for a special articleon the several features which have contributed to it. Theimportance of this divisions freight business may be gagedby the fact that in 1907 its gross earnings were $33,896, orover 23 per cent of the total gross earn-ings of the Metropolitan line. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MET-ROPOLITAN DIVISION The Metropolitan division is an oddcombination of the early and presenttypes of electric interurban railway. Itconsists in all of 52 miles of single track,of which the first 25 miles out of NorthToronto follow the highway to Newmar-ket over almost all the ups and downsof a rolling country, while the remainingsection of later construction is built

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