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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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with the Lynn &Boston Railroad Co.. and as the Beverly & Danvers Street Ry.had been also consolidated a short time previously, there is nowbut one operating company north of Boston. The Lynn & Boston has ,100 miles of track and its stock repre-sents what 18 months ago were 14 corporations. The Old ColonyStreet Ry. controls all the Massachusetts roads south of Boston;it has .382 miles of track and represents what were 17 corporations.There now remains but one company, the Newport S: Fall River,a Rhode Island corporation, that is not consolidated with one ofthe two operating companies: the lines of this company connectwith the Old Colony at Fall River, Mass., and its lease to the OldColony has been authorized by the Legislature of Rhode Islandand Massachusetts so that the consolidation will soon be complete. Nearly all of these consolidations were efTecfed under general 268 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. «v)<^ i — ( V ^ naverhiir \ \r- -^ I windiiom I , , .\hudionK. -■ -J^ :
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STRSKT RAILWAYS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANIES. (Vol. XI, No. 5- laws and approved by the Board ofRailroad Commissioners, special legis-lation being asked in but a (ew cases.The present Massachusetts Legislaturepassed two acts ratifying and confirm-ing all locations ever granted to the OldColony and the Lynn & Boston, themanagement considering this necessaryin order to enable it to carry out a plan,now under consideration, to refund theoutstanding bonds. The extended area covered by thecombined lines, and the general makeupof the properties themselves, has madedifficult in the extreme the task of soorganizing the executive and operatingforce as to secure the most harmonious,efficient and economical action through-out the many departments and ramifi-cations of the system. The way in whichthe problem was finally solved is shownin the accompanying diagram. The accompanying diagram shows theorganization as it was prior to the con-solidation of the Lowell, Lawrence &Haverh

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