Title: Electric railway journal Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Electric railroads Publisher: [New York] McGraw Hill Pub. Co Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: re is also a good volume oftravel between Columbus and Dayton. The line of the the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Wabash; at Continental,with the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad and theToledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad; at Jones City withthe Northern Ohio Railway, a subsidiary of the Lake Erie& Western Railroad; at Lima with the Cincinnati, Hamil-ton & Dayton Railway and through this line with othersteam roads entering the same city. The company alsoowns and operates the old Cincinnati & North WesternRailroad from Cincinnati north to College Hill and Mt.Healthy, formerly operated by steam, but now operated byheavy electric locomotives, which handle the freight carsof steam roads. Among the improvements now being built by the OhioElectric Railway is a new passenger terminal station atLima, Ohio, which, including the land, will cost $90,000.This will be used jointly with the Western Ohio Railway.A similar improvement is under construction at Springfield,

Text Appearing After Image: MAP OF INTERURBAN LINES OHIO LINESThe Ohio Electric Kailway.The Cincinnati Northern Traction C< INDIANA LINESIndiana Union Traction Co.Terre Haute. Indianapolis & EasternTraction Co. Ft.Wayne Si Wabash Valley Trac. Co,Other Electric Lines Scale of Sli :(»! 40 511 00 70 BO Map of Interurban Lines Comprising Ohio Electric Railway System and Connections in Ohio and Indiana Ohio Electric Railway between these points is 70 miles inlength, while that of the competitive Cleveland, Cincinnati,Chicago & St. Louis Railway is 69 miles. A train on theelectric line leaving Columbus at 3 45 p. m. arrives at Day-ton at 5 :55 p. m.; the steam train leaves Columbus at 3155and arrives at Dayton at the same hour as the electric line.The regular rates for single-trip passenger fares through-out the system are practically 2 cents a mile and commuta-tion rates vary according to conditions in each locality. Steam railway practice is followed generally in the opera-tion of the interurban lines. E

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