The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-25
Trolley To Danbuy
Work on Line Being Carried on
 During the Winter

Speaking of the progress of the work on the new trolley line from Bridge port to Danbury, the Danbury News says:
 idgeport-Danbury electric railway line has not been suspended this win
 ter and operations are going on at the present time to such extent as the
 weather and the condition of the ground will permit. F. F. Ames, of Bridgeport, who is prominently identt- fled with the enterprise, was in town last night on business connected with
 the road. MT. Ames said that while it
 was difficult to make an accurate pre- diction as to when the line would be
 cars would be in operation between
 Danbury and Bridgeport before the end of the present year. It was con
 Sidered probable few months ago that to operation early in the fall and that
 an effort would be made to run
 through cars from Bridgeport to the
 Danbury Fair next October, but MT.
 Ames said last evening that 1t seemed
 scarcely possible now that this expec-
 tation would be realized.
 At the present time eight and one
 half miles of track is completed. This
 extends from a point about three-quar-
 ters of mile north of the terminal
 In Bridgeport to Long Htll. The right
 of way has been graded and the poles
 Set for considerable greater distance e
 and as soon as the frost is out of dhe
 ground in the spring the track will be
 extended to Upper Stepney as rapidly
 as possible. Upper -Stepney is about
 twelve and one-half miles above
 Bridgeport and approximately half way
 between Bridgeport and Danbury. It
 Is the company's plan to complete and
 operate the portion of the line between
 Bridgeport and Upper Stepney as, ear
 ly in the spring as possible. MT. Ames
 said that he expected that cars would
 be running between those points by
 a 1afaGf
 pIetion of the road as far as Upper
 Stepney work upon the Danbury end
 of the line will be pushed forward with renewed vfgor. Final decision has not yet been reached in regard to the route
 by which the Bridgeport cars will en-
 ter Danbury. One plan Is to run to
 Bethel, coming into that borough over the tracks of the Danbury & Bethel street railway, which the same inter ests control. There is little doubt, ap- parently, that the Bethel route would
 be chosen without question if it were not for the obstacle presented by the grade crossing of the New York, New Haven railroad, over which the street railway rails cannot be laid. This ing passengers, baggage and freight at that point and would make 1t i'm possible for the company to run its Bridgeport cars through to Danbury. The other route in prospect is through Beaver Brook and into the city by way of the White stret line of the Danbury G. Bethel road. The connpany's fran i chise permits the construction of the load over either route
 At present the construction force is cutting through a ledge of rock within the limits of the city of Bridgeport. The track Is laid up to this ledge and from that point to the connection with the tracks of the Connecticut Go. in Bridgeport is about three-quarters of a mile The brackets are all in position upon the poles that are in place along the line and the company is waiting for the arrival of the arms from which the wires will be suspended. The stringing of the trolley wire will be commenced as soon as the arms are received, which is expected to be with | in short time. struction was of the most modern type, designed especially for high speed service. Highways have been widened and retaining walls built in front of private property in various places where it has been found neces- 1 sary to do so in order to avoid curves and other obstacles to the line.
 One feature of the roads business will be the transportation of milk and | produce from the farming region ] through which 1t will pass. Hundreds | of cans of milk are carted to RSidge- port by team, daily, forAtransportation | to New York. The company is locat- l ing milk stations along the line and | milk will be received at these points | for quick transportation either to | Bridgeport or Danbury.