. The Street railway journal . lopment of interurban elec-tric traction in this country was marked by the recent com-pletion and opening for through traffic of another trunk lineconnecting two important electric railway centers. This line,the Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Short Line, will bear a specialrelation to interurban development in that it supplies the onlymissing link between the 1000 miles of interurban lines radiat- in the Aug. 3, 1901, issue of the Street Railway the past year or so, however, subsequent to the abandon-ment of actual work upon the Everett-Moore line between T
. The Street railway journal . lopment of interurban elec-tric traction in this country was marked by the recent com-pletion and opening for through traffic of another trunk lineconnecting two important electric railway centers. This line,the Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Short Line, will bear a specialrelation to interurban development in that it supplies the onlymissing link between the 1000 miles of interurban lines radiat- in the Aug. 3, 1901, issue of the Street Railway the past year or so, however, subsequent to the abandon-ment of actual work upon the Everett-Moore line between To-ledo and Detroit and the sale of its completed right of way andtrackage to the Grand Trunk Railway, construction work uponthe extension has been actively pushed by the company, as re-organized under the name of the Detroit, Monroe & ToledoShort Line, and the various sections have been opened up forservice as rapidly as completed. The system has been oper-ating as far north as Wyandotte, 12 miles south of Detroit, for. MAP OF THE COMPLETED LINE OF THE DETROIT, MONROE & TOLEDO SHORT LINE, SHOWING ELECTRIC RAILWAY CONNEC-TIONS AT DETROIT AND TOLEDO ing into the State of Michigan from Detroit and the aggregationof electric lines in the State of Ohio, comprising over 1000 milesreached directly from Toledo and over 1500 miles reached byway of Cleveland. The possibilities of through ticket selling,and eventually the development of through traffic, that are thusmade possible, are evident. In fact, only a short section of lineremains to be completed east of Erie, Pa., when an unbrokentrolley connection will be afforded through to Buffalo, N. Y. The importance of this event was signalized by a specialthrough trip on Nov. 15 from Cleveland to Detroit and A. Everett, president of the Toledo Railways & Light Com-pany, took a party of electric railway officials over the newroute, making the run from Cleveland to Toledo over the linesof the Lake Shore Electric Railway Company, and
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