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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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requestfor correct information as to the route of its line. These requestshave been answered, with few exceptions, and the information trans-ferred to a map, 30 x 25 in. in size, including the states of Minne-sota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana andOhio. We are pleased to be able to present to our readers a repro- Franchise for the New York & Port ChesterRailway Co. After fighting four years for a franchise, first before thehi Udermen and then before the Board of Estimate, the New Vork& Port Chester Railway Co. has persuaded the Board ot Estimate toapprove its application. The board adopted a resolution fixingterms under which the road may obtain a franchise to operate 111the Bronx, but the action is tentative, inasmuch as the terms havein be advertised, under the law, for 20 days and also because thecourtshave not yet passed on the constitutionality of the act, givingfranchise-granting powers to the Board of Estimate, instead f tothe Board of Aldermen.
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MAP ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAILWAYSCENTRAL STATES TlIK ARNOLD rOMPANV duction of this map at the time when the two great net works ofinterurban lines, one in the southern part of Michigan and northernOhio, and the other in southwestern and central Ohio, have beenjoined by the completion of the Lima-Findlay division of the West-ern Ohio Railway Co., which is described in these pages. It is the purpose of the Arnold Co. to reproduce the map in blueprint form and furnish copies to those interested in the growth ofelectric railways. Directors of the Erie R. R. have decided to parallel a large partof the main line in New York state with trolley lines. Plans havebeen announced recently for the construction of a 76-mile line throughBinghamton and Corning, and it was stated that other lines will In-built later through the more populous parts of the state. The franchise is to run for 25 years with the privilege of ex-tension on a revaluation. For the first five years the company isto pay $S,ooo a

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