. The Street railway journal . ght. Operating all the industries and railroadsin a State from a single network is something .better than aremote possibility. Even now the difficulties are less physicalones than those due to political and commercial machinations. 4 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. i. THE SYSTEM OF THE STARK ELECTRIC RAILROAD COMPANY The plan of building an interurban electric railway whollyon private right of way even in cities is admitted by all engi-neers and operators to be ideal practice, but in the great ma-jority of cases the cost of securing such entrance to cities
. The Street railway journal . ght. Operating all the industries and railroadsin a State from a single network is something .better than aremote possibility. Even now the difficulties are less physicalones than those due to political and commercial machinations. 4 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. i. THE SYSTEM OF THE STARK ELECTRIC RAILROAD COMPANY The plan of building an interurban electric railway whollyon private right of way even in cities is admitted by all engi-neers and operators to be ideal practice, but in the great ma-jority of cases the cost of securing such entrance to cities andtowns is deemed prohibitive. Some of the latest interurban I AKRON . .te eluding those of the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company, theCanton Steel Company, the Carnahan Iron & Steel Company,Canton Bridge Company, Berger Manufacturing Company andthe Diebold Safe & Lock Company. In entering Canton thecompany bought private right of way for a distance of 2 milesalongside the right of way of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Rail-. SCALE OF MILES MAP OF THE TERRITORY SERVED BY THE STARK ELECTRICRAILWAY roads have adopted the practice of building around the out-skirts of small hamlets and towns, while others have gone astep further and have kept off public streets almost entirely. One of the most striking examples of a road built onprivate right of way is theStark Electric Railway inOhio. The line extends fromCanton to Salem, a distanceof about 37 miles, touchingLouisville, Alliance, Sebring,Beloit and several smallertowns. At present the inter-urban cars traverse less than4 miles of city or villagestreets, and in the near fu-ture, by means of a cut-offaround the center of Alliance,the street trackage will bereduced to less than half amile for the through cars. Toaccomplish this the companywas obliged to spend whatwould be considered by manyan excessive amount for rightof way, but it is thereby en-abled to operate fast passen-ger service without the delaysand danger of accidents in-cident to op
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