. The Street railway journal . ll probablymake it one of the largest systems ofinterurban electric railways in thecountry. The foundation for this system waslaid in the 70s, when a horse-car linewas built to connect the village ofBerea with a railway station, 2 milesdistant. In 1891 the owners of theroad, Joseph Nichols, E. W. Bishopand O. D. Pomeroy, conceived theidea of building a lo-mile line toconnect with the city lines in Cleve-land. This was opened the following year with a storage bat-tery equipment, and it was the beginning of the present enor-mous system now owned by the Pomeroy-Mand
. The Street railway journal . ll probablymake it one of the largest systems ofinterurban electric railways in thecountry. The foundation for this system waslaid in the 70s, when a horse-car linewas built to connect the village ofBerea with a railway station, 2 milesdistant. In 1891 the owners of theroad, Joseph Nichols, E. W. Bishopand O. D. Pomeroy, conceived theidea of building a lo-mile line toconnect with the city lines in Cleve-land. This was opened the following year with a storage bat-tery equipment, and it was the beginning of the present enor-mous system now owned by the Pomeroy-Mandelbaum syndi-cate, including over 500 miles of roads in five States. Oberlin line was extended to Wellington, 9 miles. In 1901 a9-mile spur liiiO was built from Elyria to Grafton, while in 1902the Berea line was extended to Medina, 17 miles, and a newline was built from Oberlin to Norwalk, 24 miles. This yearwill see the Medina line extended to Wooster, 27 miles, andnext year the Wellington line will undoubtedly be extended to.
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