. American railway transportation . tern section of the United States a western outletfor the products of the mills and factories. The railroadsin this group are often spoken of as the trunk lines,because the first through or trunk lines in the UnitedStates were those built to connect the Atlantic seaboardwith the Great Lakes and the Ohio River. The corpora-tions controlling these first trunk lines have extendedtheir systems to Chicago and St. Louis, and the term trunk lines has come to be applied to the roads be-tween the Atlantic seaboard and the central West. Comprised within this trunk-lin
. American railway transportation . tern section of the United States a western outletfor the products of the mills and factories. The railroadsin this group are often spoken of as the trunk lines,because the first through or trunk lines in the UnitedStates were those built to connect the Atlantic seaboardwith the Great Lakes and the Ohio River. The corpora-tions controlling these first trunk lines have extendedtheir systems to Chicago and St. Louis, and the term trunk lines has come to be applied to the roads be-tween the Atlantic seaboard and the central West. Comprised within this trunk-line territory is a dis-tinct subdivision of lines whose business consists chieflyof transporting anthracite coal from the Pennsylvaniamines to the seaboard. Some of the hard coal mined inPennsylvania is handled by the trunk lines, but thelarger part of this coal is mined and transported byother than the trunk-line companies. The section south of the James and Ohio and east ofthe Mississippi is usually spoken of as Southern 58 AMJERICAN RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION The traffic conditions in Southern territory differ fromthose in other parts of the country, and it is probablethat the railroads in this part of the United States willalways remain a fairly distinct group. The AlleghanyMountains separate the Southern territory into two parts,one of which is tributary to the Gulf and the other to theAtlantic seaboard. To some extent the lines in these twoparts are operated under separate managements, butthere is manifest a marked tendency toward the unifica-tion of ownership and control of the lines in both partsof the Southern territory. To the west and north of Chicago and St. Louis, andincluding the chief grain-raising States of the UnitedStates, may be found another group of railroads. Theroads in this territory are called the granger lines,a term that originated thirty years ago at the time whenthe farmers of the central West were organizing their so-called granges, or societ
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