. Electric railway journal . Toledo & Western—Grain Elevator at Metamora, Ohio freight traffic of this company, notably the following: , 1902, page 862; Dec. 20, 1902, page 978, and Sept. 2,1905, page 326. Since the publication of these articles,the freight service has continued to increase in importanceand it is still the principal feature of the business of thecompany. While the traffic possibilities open to the usual inter- those of the interurban electric railway, is due to businessappreciation of the traffic possibilities in the territoryserved. C. F. Franklin, president and general
. Electric railway journal . Toledo & Western—Grain Elevator at Metamora, Ohio freight traffic of this company, notably the following: , 1902, page 862; Dec. 20, 1902, page 978, and Sept. 2,1905, page 326. Since the publication of these articles,the freight service has continued to increase in importanceand it is still the principal feature of the business of thecompany. While the traffic possibilities open to the usual inter- those of the interurban electric railway, is due to businessappreciation of the traffic possibilities in the territoryserved. C. F. Franklin, president and general manager ofthe company, secured his railway training entirely withsteam lines. At the time of his election to this office aninvestigation showed him the wisdom of encouraging thelocation of industries, particularly as part of the line tra-verses a district that is without any other railroad facil-ities. As a result of persistent work in this direction a. Toledo & Western—Grain Elevator at Pioneer, Ohio number of industries have been located on property adja-cent to the line of the railway. Unlike most electric railways, the Toledo & WesternRailroad has direct affiliations with connecting steam position in these matters is that it is strictly a railroadwhich uses electricity instead of steam as motive furnishes the industries which rely upon its service ex-
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