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Title: Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Johnson, Emory Richard, 1864-
Subjects: Transportation
Publisher: New York, Appleton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the roads in each of the large groups of control. The Vanderbilt Roads and the Pennsylvania Interests.—The Vanderbilt & Pennsylvania railway federations have practical control north of the Potomac and Ohio. In this small section of the United States, three fifths of the entire railway freight tonnage is handled and here passenger traffic is heaviest. Hence, these are the two richest and strongest railway groups. The New York Central and its affiliated roads, which include the Boston & Albany in New England, various roads in New York and the Central Traffic territory, and the wide-reaching Chicago and Northwestern have a combined length of 23,006 miles of line. The Pennsylvania Railroad, its controlled lines and its allies, whose policies must harmonize with the Pennsylvania interests, comprise 20,385 line miles. In New England, north of Boston, the Boston & ^Maineis paramount, but it is controlled by the New York, New < -^v-a Q. Z) oa ccz « to o I ^1 , .^ N ^ § tv < H-
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28 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION Haven & Hartford which is supreme south of Boston. The New Haven, in turn, is under the joint sway of the New York Central & Pennsylvania. Similarly, the Reading System, which includes both the Reading Railway and the Central of New Jersey, is controlled jointly by the same interests. The Morgan Roads, as the map shows, are partly in Trunk Line Central Traffic territory, but mainly in the South where J. P. Morgan and his financial associates hold the commanding position as the result of their control over the great Southern Railway and its allies—the Queen &Crescent and the Mobile & Ohio on the West, and the Atlantic Coast Line on the Southeast. The strongest railroad along the Atlantic seaboard of the Southern States and in Florida is the Atlantic Coast Line. The Coast Line and the still larger Louisville & Nashville System, whose lines connect St. Louis and Cincinnati with the Gulf, are owned by the same persons, and Mr. Morgans holdings areso

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