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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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means for traveling north wasby the Lackawanna Railroad, which, together with thepublic highway, occupied practically all of the availableland in the defile formed by the hills. Owing to its enor-mous carload freight business, the steam railroad could notgive the proper attention toward the development of localpassenger business; neither was any strong effort made tofoster local freight traffic and thus relieve the farmers anddairymen from the long and expensive wagon hauls toScranton. While the construction of an electric railway through thiscountry had been agitated for several years, the engineeringdifficulties discouraged active work until early in 1906,when the Northern Electric Street Railway Company wasorganized to build an electric railway from Scranton, par-alleling the Lackawanna Railroad to Factoryville andthence diverging to the west to reach Lake Winola, a notedsummer resort. The general layout of the line is shownin the accompanying map, from which it will be noted that
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Copyright by \V. I. Ross, Scranton, Pa. THE ENTRANCE TO SCRANTON FROM THE NORTH VIA LEGGETTS CREEK GAP the timber-stripped hills. Yet a few miles north of theterritory made desolate by the miner lies one of the pretti-est mountain and agricultural districts in the State. Theworkers in Scranton have always appreciated the valuesuch a region would be to them for residential purposes, the section now in operation extends from ProvidenceSquare, Scranton, to Factoryville. The section to LakeWinola is under way and should be completed in time forthe summer business. The dotted lines indicate the futureextensions of the system to Tunkhannock on the west and March 21, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 449 Nicholson on the north. In all about 27,000 people will beserved by the new line. Of these 15,000 constitute the sum-mer population in or near the towns along the route and12,000 are in the second and third wards of Scranton.These figures take no account of pleasure riding from the Market Stree

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