Electric railway review (1906) (14759029474)

Identifier: electricrailwayr18amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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Youngstown & Southern Railway—Terminal Station atYoungstown, mean ini;>ortauce. Leetonia is equally important, bringing thel)0;)ulation of the section traversed by the road up to 80,000. The line is built almost entirely upon private right ofwav. tnehalf mile only within the city of Youngstown being
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Youngstown & Southern Railway—Standard Passenger Car. ger and freight station, illustrated herewith, has been erected,and on Mill street, Leetonia. where another handsome stationis to be erected. The new road traverses the rich farming section of east-ern. Ohio, touching a number of important shipping pointsand settlements from which is received such a volume of trafficas to augur well for the future of the system. Youngstown.the northern terminus of the line, has a population of about70,000. and in industrial operations is the most prosperouscity between Cleveland and Pittsburg. Eleven miles to the over Iublic thoroughfare, where paving betweiu tricks andone foot outside is a franchise requirement. For the rest ofthe distance the private right of way has a width of 50 feet.In its construction it was necessary to make a number ofcuts, the deepest being 16 feet, while the heaviest fill was 12feet. Outside of the city 70-iionnd rails, in 33-foot lengths, arfused, with Weber and Du