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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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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MAP OF TERRITORY SERVED BY THE TOLEDO & WESTERN RAILWAY ers Association and the Auditors Association, and while ithas not secured recognition from the Central Service Associa-tion or the Joint Traffic Association, it receives foreign carsfrom some of the roads, receiving a pro rate for the haul overits line, and its cars have been sent all over the country, fromMaine to California, although as a rule it endeavors to keepthem at home and use foreign cars for distant shipments. For-eign cars requiring repairs are taken care of in its shops, as onall steam roads, and an association inspector examines its cars.
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MAIN BUILDING OF NEW BEET SUGAR PLANT, BLISSFIELD, MICHMATERIAL HANDLED BY TOLEDO & WESTRN RAILWAY A connection with the Wabash at Franklin furnishes an ex-cellent outlet to the west and south, and at this point it has aconnecting yard equal to almost any connection between twosteam roads. It has its own transfer station, with a receivingtrack anci a delivering track. At the crossing there is a fullinterlocker, maintained by both roads, and giving both equalrights. A view of this crossing and connecting tracks is shownori page 328. At Denson it has a very good connection with points into Toledo at from $2 to $3 per car, and it practicallygives the Toledo & Western track connection with all thesteam roads entering Toledo. At the present time the Belt line offers no facilities for load-ing or unloading broken lots of package freight, and the electricline still operates package freight cars independent of its freighttrains. These run to the interurban union freight station inTole

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