. The Street railway journal . PASSENGER SEAT CHECK ISSUED ON HOLLAND SLEEPER minutes from Toledo to Veedersburg, 249 miles, on a throughtrain having no layovers. The Dayton & Western Interstate Limiteds, connectingas they do with the Lima Limiteds at Dayton, make possiblea trip from Indianapolis to Lima, 188 miles, in six hours andforty-five minutes, which is better connection than can be madeby way of Dayton on steam roads. Similar instances almostwithout number could be found if one figured for connections 204 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 5. between small towns widely separated, a
. The Street railway journal . PASSENGER SEAT CHECK ISSUED ON HOLLAND SLEEPER minutes from Toledo to Veedersburg, 249 miles, on a throughtrain having no layovers. The Dayton & Western Interstate Limiteds, connectingas they do with the Lima Limiteds at Dayton, make possiblea trip from Indianapolis to Lima, 188 miles, in six hours andforty-five minutes, which is better connection than can be madeby way of Dayton on steam roads. Similar instances almostwithout number could be found if one figured for connections 204 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 5. between small towns widely separated, and the possibilitieswould be greater were it not for the fact that few electric roadsoperate cars before 5 a. m. and after 12 p. m. The significant feature of these comparisons is the fact that. HOLLAND SLEEPER LEAVING COLUMBUS UNION STATION such journeys could be made quicker if the two systems workedhand in hand and interchanged business. The embargo ofsteam roads against electrics is bound to be broken sooner orlater, and the few roads that have entered into such allianceshave clearly disproved the assertionmade by the steam traffic associationsthat the benefits of such allianceswould be all on the side of the elec-trics. The Clover Leaf, a steam roadoperating from Toledo, Ohio, to , connects with a large numberof electrics in Ohio, Michigan andIndiana, and interlines with practi-cally all of them, thereby offeringlow rates to hundreds of points inthis district which it otherwise couldnot touch. Tickets are sold everyday from Cleveland to St. Louis by the Lake Shore Electric; during the Worlds Fair it soldover 2000 of these tickets. In connection with the Indianapolis& Northwestern Traction Company, fast time is made betweenIndianapolis and Toledo, and in conne
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