Identifier: americanrailwayt1908john (find matches)
Title: American railway transportation
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Emory R. (Emory Richard), 1864-1950
Subjects: Railroads Railroads and state
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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rent portions of the country have come, ina large degree, to be owned by a limited number of groupsof capitalists. The railway system of the United States as a wholemay be divided into seven groups, each group occupyinga nearly although not completely distinct section of thecountry. AYithin some of these sections the railroad sys-tem may be subdivided into two or more parts, dependentupon whether a general or detailed classification is soughtfor. The first of these territorial groups of railroadscomprises the New England States. The railroads in thissection differ from those of other parts of the country,because they serve the region where population is densest;where the passenger business as compared with thefreight is larger than in any of the other States, andwhere the local freight business as contrasted with thethrough freight is of relatively greater importance. Bos-ton is the great port of the; New England States, and theroads north of Boston are quite distinct from those south
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66 AMERICAN RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION of that citj. The interchange of traffic between the twosections is comparatively small, and the railroad lines inthe two sections are under the control of different man-agements. The region west of New England and the middle At-lantic seaboard, north of the Ohio and James Rivers, andeast of the cities of Chicago and St. Louis comprisesanother section of the country within which there isconsiderable unity in the operation and ownership of therailroad systems. The railroads in this group have theheaviest freight traffic of any roads in the country. Mostof them were built from the East toward the West, for thepurpose of bringing the agricultural, forest, and mineralproducts of the great central West to the Atlantic sea-board to supply our own and European markets, and forthe purpose of giving the manufacturing industries of thenortheastern section of the United States a western outletfor the products of the mills and factories. The railroadsin this gro

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