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Title: American railway transportation
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Emory R. (Emory Richard), 1864-1950
Subjects: Railroads Railroads and state
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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more • instructive, and may be madewithout especial difficulty. This classification, however, issubject to constant change by transfers of ownership fromone set of capitalists to another. The student will needto revise the classification year by year, but the tendenciesin railway consolidation are such that the amount ofrevision necessary can hardly be very great. The classi-fication submitted in the following table shows that thelargest share of the great railroad mileage in this countryis already in the hands of a limited number of large inter-ests. Between these groups of capitalists there is devel-oping a community of interest or harmony of action thatis rapidly restraining the competition in rate-making thatformerly prevailed among separately managed railway sys-tems. The table on pages 62 and 63 groups the leading ir of > cr z cr a. 3 o 3 > cr o z »8 E cc 5 z 3 > o cc _l_l I s o z q:CO ztr 2 Li. 1 d~ oo O z i < z 3 t- I1- ii cr u oc I 3 cr o o CD O z
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62 AMERICAN RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION Grouping of American Railroads by Ownership andTerritory, 1906 Systems and Roads. Mileage. Territory. 1. The Boston and Maine, and 2,3492,056 392 3,120 957 1,520 1,745 523 2,329 880 191 328 1,264 9,329 I New Eng-J land. 2. New York, New Haven and Hartford 3. The Vanderbilt roads: Boston and Albany New York Central and Hudson River Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Michigan Central Trunk New York, Chicago and St. Louis 1 line. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. LouisLake Erie and Western Pittsburg and Lake Erie Chicago, Indiana and Southern Other affiliated Eastern roads Chicago and Northwestern Granger. Total 22,578 4. The Pennsylvania Interests: Pennsylvania Railroad (east of Pittsburg)Pennsylvania Company (west of Pittsburg).Grand Rapids and Indiana 5,9414,8685798284,4541,8741,826 Terra Haute and Indianapolis (Vandalia).. .Baltimore and Ohio (Allied to Penna. R.R.)Norfolk and Western (Allied to Penna.R.R)Chesapea

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