. The Street railway journal . INTERIOR EXPRESS CAR Springfield & Urbana is 146, of fare, are indicated: Population Dayton 85,833 Harshman . .. : 300 Fairfield 335 Osborn 948 Medway 200 Donelsville 200 En on 295 Snyderville lOO Springfield 38,253 Glen Echo 100 Bowlusville 100 Urbana 6,808 The towns included, with SingleFare $■25■30■• RoundTrip $•35• •55•55•75•75L05 LIO115 DistanceMiles 101518202427353742 i May i6, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 733 CENTRAL MARKET STREET RAILWAYIn building into Columbus the Appleyard syndicate decidedto build its own
. The Street railway journal . INTERIOR EXPRESS CAR Springfield & Urbana is 146, of fare, are indicated: Population Dayton 85,833 Harshman . .. : 300 Fairfield 335 Osborn 948 Medway 200 Donelsville 200 En on 295 Snyderville lOO Springfield 38,253 Glen Echo 100 Bowlusville 100 Urbana 6,808 The towns included, with SingleFare $■25■30■• RoundTrip $•35• •55•55•75•75L05 LIO115 DistanceMiles 101518202427353742 i May i6, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 733 CENTRAL MARKET STREET RAILWAYIn building into Columbus the Appleyard syndicate decidedto build its own city system to provide entrance for interurbanlines. The Central Market Street Railway Company wasformed for this purpose, and it acquired franchises for about30 miles of road. The chief lines operate through the city fromnorth to south and from east and west, all cars traversing theinterurban loop in the center of the city. The loop itself is. CAR HOUSES AND SHOPS owned by the Columbus, London & Springfield Company, butthe balance of the system is owned by the Central Market Com-pany. The city lines are all double track, and a noteworthyfeature is that in order to provide large radius curves for thelong interurban cars, the company was obliged to purchasecorner lots in all cases, and in a number of instances houseswere torn down. The smallest curve on the system has a and the largest 114 ft. On the 6^ miles of improvedstreets traversed by the system standard Trilby rails, 107 lbs. tothe yard, 62 ft. long and 9 ins. high, are used, and these areset on 6-in. ties with a lo-in. bed of crushed stone and concrete,making a roadbed which, it is claimed, will last for many section between Long Street on Third Street to WarrenStreet, extending through Chestnut Street to Fourth Street, hasthree rails, because the Columbus Railway Companys gageis 5 ft. 2 ins. This feature was illustrated in the article onthe
Size: 1340px × 1865px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
