. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . extent the territory tapped by the Detroit UnitedRailway lines has no other railway facilities, and this factmade it easy for the electric roads to build up a freighttraffic. There is, however, successful competition with thesteam railroads for a small part of their general freightbusiness. The second class of freight service is performed bythose electric roads that are feeders of the steam these electric feeders extend from relatively largetowns, located
. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . extent the territory tapped by the Detroit UnitedRailway lines has no other railway facilities, and this factmade it easy for the electric roads to build up a freighttraffic. There is, however, successful competition with thesteam railroads for a small part of their general freightbusiness. The second class of freight service is performed bythose electric roads that are feeders of the steam these electric feeders extend from relatively largetowns, located upon a steam railroad, through smallertowns having no railway connections. Several large steam-railroad systems are encouraging the construction of elec-tric branch lines to serve as feeders both for their passen-ger and freight business. The tliird class of electric freight services is performedby the rural trolley lines, which gather up and take tomarket the farm products and perform a large part ofthe transportation business of the country villages. Theserural lines are inexpensively built, mainly along the high-. 188 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION ways; and with the development which they are certain tohave in the near future, the steam- and electric-railwaytransportation system will be brought into immediate con-nection witli an increasing number of rural communitiesand with the people of a greater number of small towns. Economic and Social Advantages Resulting from ElectricRailways.—The desire to travel is universal; and the rapidincrease of suburban and interurban railways has made itpossible for men to travel much more easily and cheaplythan they formerly could. There has been an enormousdevelopment of travel for pleasure and for education, butthe chief effects of the electric railways have been indus-trial. Most travel is undertaken for business reasons, andthe chief function of the electric road has been to enablethe people to do their work more easily. ^Moreover, with
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