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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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about 66,000. The trunk line, as shown on the accompanying map, strings along for 19 miles throughthe Beaver and Ohio valleys between the boroughs ofLeetsdale and College Hill, with branch-offs to Beaverand Monaca (2.69 miles and 1.5 miles respectively) anda 2.59-m.ile crosstown line known as the Riverview Linebetween New Brighton and Beaver Falls. Expansion ofthe towns is almost everywhere limited by rivers andhills. Even the largest towns are but twelve squares orblocks in width while the smaller communities are onlyfour to seven squares wide. The back country is merelyvery poor farming land with little tributary population.The travel characteristics on such a system are natu-rally dependent to a large degree upon the location of themanufactories and picture houses in the district. Except for Beaver and Baden, the district along therailway is industrial, with steel and iron productionpredominating and glass, brick and other clay indus-tries also a factor. Quite a large number of the
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LAYOUT OF THE BEAVER VALLEY TRACTION COMPANY AND April 9, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 671 middle-class citizenry work in Pittsburgh and commutevia the Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh & Lake ErieRailroads, whose routes are also shown on the map. Asthe Pennsylvania runs fifty-seven trains and the Pitts-burgh & Lake Erie fifty-six trains daily, it may beguessed that the electric lines do not get much throughbusiness. Then, too, the steam rates to commuters areonly $11.90 per month for a sixty-trip ticket coveringa one-way 28-mile ride. With an average of but fifty-two trips a month, this is 1,456 miles for $11.90 or 0.82cents per mile, a rate out of the question for single-carelectric operation in this kind of territory. Besides this practical monopoly of long-haul businessby the steam railways, the electric railways have tocontend with the insidious and ubiquitous private auto-mobile which cuts into both short-haul and long-haulopportunities indifferently. Indeed, as most of the s

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