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Title: Summer tours via the Michigan central, "The Niagara Falls route" ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Michigan central railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: (n.p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Wayne and the towers and domes of theimmense Exposition Buildings. Reachtug the Canada shore, the train is soon under way again, and makesfast time indeed through Her Majestys Dominion. Passing St. Thomas, animportant railroad center, and Welland, on the famous ship-canal, we soonreach the Niagara River, and, after stopping at Falls View to enjoy the grandestspectacle of nature (page 17), run down the river to Clifton, where the NiagaraDivision diverges to Niagara-on-the-Lake, and cross the gorge on the wonderfulsteel Cantilever Bridge. This, the prototype -of the great bridge recently con-structed over the Firth of Forth, was the first of its kind ever constructed, anddespite its apparent lightness, is one of the strongest and safest bridges in theworld. At Suspension Bridge station, at the eastern end of the Cantilever, connectionis made with the Lockport Division of the New York Central, and with the trainsof the Rome, Watertown & Ogdeusbmg Raihoad for the St. Lawrence and the
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From Chicago to New York. 65 Wtiite Mountains (pages 32 and 49). It is but two miles farther to Niagara Falls,N. Y., and twenty-four miles to Buffalo, and all the way the train follows nearthe bank of the Niagara River and affords lovely views of the narrow gorgebelow th3 FaUs, and the broad, lake-like expansesabove, with peaceful-lookinggreen islands here and there. Buffalo, 536 miles from Chicago and 446 miles from New York, has a popula-tion of nearly a third of a miUion and is the third city of the State. It is welland handsomely built, and is famed for its extensive lake commerce, for itsgigantic elevators, through which run unfailing rivers of grain, for its manufac-tures of mitals, for its malt and beer, for its gigantic coal and ice traffic, and asthe converging point of ten different lines of railway. The streets are mostlybroad and straight, and those in the more elevated portions of the city are bor-dered with a profusion of shade trees, which adorn also the five public squ

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