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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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rawas County. The towns are 4 miles apart, and localservice separate from the interurban line is given betweenthem. Uhrichsville is a railroad and coal center. The population of the cities and towns touched by the systemaccording to the latest census is shown in the accompanyingtable: CANTON-AKRON KAILWAY Akron 42,728 Canton 30.667 Massillon n,944 CANTON & NEW PHILADELPHIA RAILWAY Navarre 936 Beach City 364 Strasburg 461 Canal Dover 5.422 New Philadelphia 6,213 TUSCARAWAS TRACTION COMPANY Midvale 491 Tuscarawas 412 Uhrichsville 4.582 104,247 Tributary population 35.000 The Canton-Akron Railway enters Akron over the tracks ofthe Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company from EastAkron. Cars operate to the passenger station of the NorthernOhio Traction & Light Company, where they make direct con-nection with the cars of that company for Cleveland. Ticketsare sold clear through over both roads, a coupon form of ticketbeing used, giving each road its regular fare. The traffic ar-
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LIXE VIEW—CANTON-NEW PHILADELPHIA RAILWAY rangement with the Northern Ohio Traction & Light Companyis on the Cleveland plan. The city crew takes the interurbancar at the city limits and collects and keeps all the city fares,and the Northern Ohio Company pays the Canton-Akron Com-pany at the rate of 2 cents per car mile for the use of the carswhile on its tracks. The Canton-Akron Company gives hourlyheadway between Akron and Massillon; the Canton-NewPhiladelphia Company gives hourly headway between Massillonand New Philadelphia, and the Tuscarawas Traction Companyhourly headway between Canal Dover and Uhrichsville. Thecars connect so that a through trip is possible over all threelines without delays. Tickets are sold clear through, coupontickets being used. In Canton the city cars operate on a 10-minute headway over five routes, all cars passing the interurban station, which, with the general offices of the companies, islocated in the basement of the Court House Building, facingC

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