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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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villages the companyhas its own right of way with a minimum width of40 ft., the location being chosen with a view to highspeed operation. The country traversed is level except that shortsection between Ft. Wayne and New Haven whichis slightly rolling. This favorable topography hasenabled the grades between Lima and New Havento be kept under i per cent without excessive con-struction cost, and the right of way was so chosen as counties include rich oil fields which not only insure prosperity forrural land owners, but provide both passenger and freight businessfor the railway. Over one hundred manufacturing concerns, manyof them large ones, have their headquarters in the terminal citiesand the towns on the route; aside from these the oil wells, stonequarries and grain elevators in the territory are numerous. At Lima the road interchanges business with the Western OhioRy., and when completed to Ft. Wayne will have similar arrange-ments with the Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Co.
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EUDA WAITING ROOM AND SUB-STATION. 28 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XV, No. i. The population tributary lo tlic line is as follows: Allen County, Indiana: Ft. Wayne 57,ooo New Haven i,2co Monroeville i .000 Rural population along line 8,000 Total 67,200 Van Wert County, Ohio: Convoy 1,100 Van Wert 9.000 Middlepoint 1,500 Delphos 2,300 Rural population aloni; line 8,200 Total. .Mien County, Oliic Delphos Elida Lima 2,800 ■•• 550 33,000 Rural )mpulalinn along line SiOOO Total. -! ■ .^.^o Grand Total Average, including terminal cities. .Average, excluding terminal cities. 130.650 2.06- 677

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