Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, Volume 1 |
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Page xi
... Buffalo , Rochester and Pittsburg . $ 862,962 94 $ 2,490.049 01 $ 1,520,909 47 $ 969,139 54 840,140 12 557,095 59 283,044 53 826,787 73 550,658 76 Delaware and Hudson . 2,025,654 55 1,078,949 54 946,705 01 2,121,311 34 Delaware ...
... Buffalo , Rochester and Pittsburg . $ 862,962 94 $ 2,490.049 01 $ 1,520,909 47 $ 969,139 54 840,140 12 557,095 59 283,044 53 826,787 73 550,658 76 Delaware and Hudson . 2,025,654 55 1,078,949 54 946,705 01 2,121,311 34 Delaware ...
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... Buffalo , Rochester and Pittsburg . Delaware and Hudson Delaware , Lackawanna and Western $ 2,330,354 83 847,424 59 $ 1,640,010 16 $ 690,344 67 $ 2,490,049 01 $ 1,663,249 05 $ 826,799 96 776,246 11 71,178 48 834,219 45 767,013 91 67,205 ...
... Buffalo , Rochester and Pittsburg . Delaware and Hudson Delaware , Lackawanna and Western $ 2,330,354 83 847,424 59 $ 1,640,010 16 $ 690,344 67 $ 2,490,049 01 $ 1,663,249 05 $ 826,799 96 776,246 11 71,178 48 834,219 45 767,013 91 67,205 ...
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... Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric street surface road . The cars of this road are equipped with four twenty - five - horse - power motors , and the speed controller can be adjusted by the motorman to posi- tively limit the maximum ...
... Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric street surface road . The cars of this road are equipped with four twenty - five - horse - power motors , and the speed controller can be adjusted by the motorman to posi- tively limit the maximum ...
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... Buffalo . Plans have finally been perfected and agreements signed for the abolition of grade crossings in the city of Buffalo . In 1888 , a grade crossing commission was created by act of the Legislature for the city of Buffalo . The ...
... Buffalo . Plans have finally been perfected and agreements signed for the abolition of grade crossings in the city of Buffalo . In 1888 , a grade crossing commission was created by act of the Legislature for the city of Buffalo . The ...
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... Buffalo , a distance of 436.32 miles , at an average of 63.54 miles per hour elapsed time , and 64.22 miles per hour , time in motion . The weight of the Central train , it will be seen , was more than double that of the London train ...
... Buffalo , a distance of 436.32 miles , at an average of 63.54 miles per hour elapsed time , and 64.22 miles per hour , time in motion . The weight of the Central train , it will be seen , was more than double that of the London train ...
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Page 644 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question, and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 634 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 643 - ... keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted, and shall have the right to obtain from such common carriers full and complete information necessary to enable the Commission to perform the duties and carry out the objects for which it was created...
Page 634 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 634 - railroad" as used in this Act shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract, agreement, or lease; and the term "transportation" shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage.
Page 635 - Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith, and shall not discriminate in their rates and charges between such connecting lines; but this shall not be construed as requiring any such common carrier to give the use of its tracks or terminal...
Page 641 - That any common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, or, whenever such common carrier is a corporation, any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or person acting for or employed by such corporation, who.
Page 643 - ... the date of the taking effect of this Act, the term of each to be designated by the President, but their successors shall be appointed for terms of seven years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the commissioner whom he shall succeed.
Page 550 - No county, city, town or village shall hereafter .give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes.
Page 550 - This section shall not be construed to prevent the issuing of certificates of indebtedness or revenue bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes for amounts actually contained, or to be contained in the taxes for the year when such certificates or revenue bonds are issued and payable out of such taxes.