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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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kej)! streetslined with rows of massive old trees, its business district of modernstores and factories. The entire line passes directly llinniuli (lie longest iiiarkil gariliudistrict of Cincinnati, the territory between the numerous (ownsbeing cut up into small farms from which is received a largeamount of light freight and cNi)rebS mailer. Rapid Railway Division. This hue operates through the town of Norwood, the new fac-tory district of Cincinnati, and at wliioli place is located such well-known nianufacluring jilaiils .is the (ilobe-Wernicke Co., the liiillock 874 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIII, No. ii. Electric & Manufacturing Co., the United States Playing CardCo., the United States Lithographing Co., etc., at which plants areemployed thousands of people. Leaving Norwood, the line passes ill southern Ohio. Leaving Mason, the road oper.ites to KingsMills, where the Kings Powder Co. and the large works of thePeters Cartridge Co. are located. These companies have from 1,200
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IXTHRIOR OF POWER STATION NO. 1. through several towns to Brecon, all suburbs of Cincinnati whoseresidents are employed in the city, which makes a very heavy com- i1 II 1 JE ^ll^l^l EXTERIOR OF POWER STATION NO. SOUTH LEBANON. muter business for the road. Passing Brecon, at the new High Poinlsubdivision, the road enters Warren County, and passes throughMiltomson and Mason, one of the most beautiful residence towns to 1,500 employes, and it is their policy to have their employes liveat points away from the works, and a large number of them are resi-dents of Miltomson, Mason, South Lebanon, Morrow and Lebanon,making an exceptionally good riding population for the road atthese points. From Kings Mills the road operates to South Lebanon(with a branch to Morrow to be constructed this year) and on toLebanon, the county seat of Warren County, probably the richesttown of its size in the state. This entire road is practically locatedthrough a continuous row of towns, and one is never out of si

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