. Electric railway journal . plaints such as threatened to wipe outthe prosperous business which it had created in thetransportation of stone. It is not pretended that thenew cars are altogether inconspicuous, but they do givean impression of massive strength and efficient designwhich make a pleasing contrast to strings of ever-tiltingdumpies, shedding stones in their journey, as Hansof the fairy tale marked his path by dropping pebblesbetween his home and the forest. 68 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 2. New Interurban Railway in the Minnesota Iron Range A Description of the Mesaba
. Electric railway journal . plaints such as threatened to wipe outthe prosperous business which it had created in thetransportation of stone. It is not pretended that thenew cars are altogether inconspicuous, but they do givean impression of massive strength and efficient designwhich make a pleasing contrast to strings of ever-tiltingdumpies, shedding stones in their journey, as Hansof the fairy tale marked his path by dropping pebblesbetween his home and the forest. 68 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 2. New Interurban Railway in the Minnesota Iron Range A Description of the Mesaba Railway, a 35-Mile. 725-Volt Line with Interesting Construction and Operating Features and a Complete Cab-Signal System The new Mesaba Railway in the Minnesota IronRange district is a good example of an interurban elec-tric line recently built in a growing community. Thepopulation served by this 35-mile line exceeds 55,000and is distributed among nine cities and locations,as the mining settlements are called, varying in size. Mesaba Railway—Map of Route from 500 to 15,000 people. This population is largelymade up of the laborers in the open-pit iron minesalong the Iron Range, which extends in an east andwest direction across that part of Minnesota lying 80miles north of Duluth and Lake Superior. Althoughthis great iron ore district is served by a network ofsteam railroads, none of them is interested in a pas-senger business. All their energies are being directedtoward increasing the ore tonnage, which is a mostprofitable source of revenue In considering the possibilities of an electric railwaythrough this district the promoters of the MesabaRailway found that at least one of the steam roads, locations and the cities. This fact was quite evidentfrom the amount of passenger traffic between thesecenters, even under the inconvenient service offered bythe steam roads before the advent of the electric line. Another inducement to the promotion of an electricline in this locality was
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