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Identifier: americanrailwayt1908john (find matches)
Title: American railway transportation
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Emory R. (Emory Richard), 1864-1950
Subjects: Railroads Railroads and state
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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y years ago at the time whenthe farmers of the central West were organizing their so-called granges, or societies. The granger roads radi-ate from three centers, the chief of which is Chicago.At the head of Lake Superior is another growing centerof traffic, while St. Louis has always been an importantpoint for the collection and distribution of the trafficfrom and to the agricultural central West. South and west of St. Louis lies the Southwesternterritory, within which there is a large number of railway lines, some of them having St. Louis and Memphisconnections, and others being more distinctly tributaryto Gulf ports. A large part of the roads in this systemwere formerly controlled by Jay Gould; now they aremanaged by a group of capitalists headed by George J.Gould, and these lines are often spoken of as the Gouldroads. West of the sections occupied by the granger andSouthwestern lines lies the territory occupied by the trans-continental or Pacific roads. These transcontinental lines
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60 AMERICAN RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION have connections with Chicago and the Mississippi^ andconsequently the territory occupied by the transcontinentallines overlaps to some extent the granger and South-western sections. The transcontinental lines are dividedinto two rather distinct groups, the Northern and Southern.Within the Northern section are comprised the GreatNorthern, the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlingtonand Quincy. The Southern section includes the Union,Central, and Southern Pacific roads, all under one man-agement, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, whichup to the present time has remained an independent line.The grouping of the railroads just given into sevensections is based upon physical differences prevailing indifferent parts of the country, and it is not probable thatthose differences will very largely change with the growthof the country. We may then expect such a classificationto be fairly permanent. The objection to the classification,however, is that it g

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