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DERN PROBLEMS OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. By Mr. W. D. MoKinley, President, is Traotion System, Champaign, Illir J 5in aoKea x-nis morning to take up ten minutes in speaking Of tl ^Modern Problems of Electric Railways11. i" Every day., brings problems , each more modern than the one preoeding, and as one of my friends suggests, "If it isn't one thing-, . it's two" . The electric railway is a modern institution'*,. Its development has been within the last decade, and practically all Of its problems are modern ones. The trail^hai to be blazed and the experiences and troubles of our big brothers, the stea- roads, offered little in the way of guidance. My, experience in tv.e electric railway world has been literally from the ground up, and in the early days many an unsolved problem accompanied me to bed. The problems of one road are often those of anotfc< To speak of a concrete example, let us consider the Tllinoii Traction System, < f which I have the honor to be President, b and which I have had the pleasure of financing, constructin operating, and also of watching its successful.development. Thijp System now comprises over five hundred miles which hav on unfolded from tho construction 01 six m n o a $r iville \-; WestviU© in 1901. vwn In the f inanoing, ^uildiag.and islacihi of ths linos upon an operating has Is, many problems
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