. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . Buffalo Harbor. more than one of a capacity of over a million bushels elevatingtwenty thousand bushels an hour. Yet great as is Buffalo as the outlet of the lakes and theterminus of the Erie Canal, her chief greatness and powerto-day comes from the tribute of the railroad systems. As MissWelch wrote: * To win the heart of this queen city to-dayyou must court her in the role of a railway king. No city,save one, owes so much to railroads as does Buffalo. Herterminal facilities are unequaled, and her transfer yards atEast
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . Buffalo Harbor. more than one of a capacity of over a million bushels elevatingtwenty thousand bushels an hour. Yet great as is Buffalo as the outlet of the lakes and theterminus of the Erie Canal, her chief greatness and powerto-day comes from the tribute of the railroad systems. As MissWelch wrote: * To win the heart of this queen city to-dayyou must court her in the role of a railway king. No city,save one, owes so much to railroads as does Buffalo. Herterminal facilities are unequaled, and her transfer yards atEast Buffalo are the largest in the world, with the outlyingcountry encompassed for miles about by a network of tracks,approaching closer and closer as they near the city, andextending around the harbor side to pour their freight of coal,salt, and petroleum into the lake vessels in return for a cargo7. Eiie County Savings Batik. of grain, flour, lumber, iron, and copper ore. CommercialBuffalo is like a portly and self-satisfied spider, supreme inthe center of her web. Without the duplication of a rod some ten thousand milesof travel are possible on the lines centering at Buffalo alone,as the starting point or terminus of twenty different railwaylines. Chief among these is, of course, the great four-trackNew York Central, Americas Greatest Railroad, away to theeast to Albany, New York, and Boston, with branches to theSt. Lawrence, through the Adirondack Mountains, and tomany other rich and picturesque regions north and south ofand beyond the main line. Westward runs the MichiganCentral, The Niagara Falls Route, whose magnificentlyequipped and admirably operated trains cross the great gorgeof Niagara on the famous steel cantalever bridge, passingdirectly by and in full view of the great cataract, stopping itstrains five minutes at Falls View, that greatest of all view points,and then
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