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Title: The street railway review Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association Subjects: Street-railroads Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: STREET RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XV APRIL IS, 190S No. * The West Penii Railways System. Tile pnipiTlics comprising the system known as tlic West PcnnRailways arc llie Piflshurg, McKeesport & Coniicllsville Ry.; theUniontowM S: Mcnuingaliela Valley Ry.; the Connellsvillc SiiburhanStreet Ry.. and the GrecnshiirR & Sonthern Electric Street Ry,Ihis system is an example of the effects of rehabilitation and mod-ernization of obsolete and disconnected lines of railway. Fromeleven short lines, many of them with worn-out track, broken down arc among the richest in the slate of Pennsylvania. Tlie population is as follows: I-ayeltc, 110,412; Westmoreland, 1*30,175; and•Allegheny, which bears ihc distinction of being the only county inthe United Slates having three incorporated cities within its limits,has a popniation of 775,058. Six of the towns within Ihcse coun-ties aggregate 65.000 inhabitants and include two county scats—Circensbnrg and t^niontown. Iwenly-four small towns with popu-

Text Appearing After Image: INTERIOK VIEW UF 1>0\VER IIOLSE, WEST FENN K.\H.WAYS SYSTEM. oi|iiipnionl .uul pndr and nnreliablc power service, have come forthtlie present modern and up-to-date lines of the West Penn RailwaysCo. with a total of 106 miles of track. The business interests in thecountry operated through are industrial almost entirely, and whilefarming communities are served in a few sections even this terri-tory has been invaded by the coke operator until there are but fewmiles that do not enjoy a population very greatly in excess of anyagricultural section. The territory served is in the three adjacentcounties of .Allegheny, Westmoreland and Favette. which counties lations from 500 to 2,000, are also situated along the lines, but thecoke and mine workers scattered through the rural district go tomake up the great body of patrons. From a conservative estimateon the population living in a strip two miles in width on eitherside of the route, there are 360,000 inhabitants who may be countedon as patr

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