The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-26
More Than 1,00G Miles Recently
Projected Now Are in Con
structiOn.
WILL OPEN UP NEW FIELDS,
Baltimore and annapolis Are TO
Ee Connected With Washing
ton-An Extensive System
In South Carolina.
REPUBLIC

REPUBLIC SPECTAL.
Baltimore. Md. April 3~.-Signifcant %
developments in the South and OF changing
conditions there is the fact that more than
100 miles % interurban electric railways
have been recently projected and some are
already in an advanced stage Of construc-
ton.
"One Of the most notable OF these roads
saws the Manufacturers Record this week.
in a summary OF sucn undertakings. is
TO connect Baltimore and Annapolis with
Washington. This Will have q total track
age OF fifty or sixty miles. Tn main lire
is new. or nearly all new. construction.
Though the branch To- annapolis at
present viii be a steam railroad. it will BE-
converted TO electric operation. Another
road for which surveys have been made *
20 connect Baltimore ard Bel !Ar. Nd =
distance OF about twenty-five miles. and
this Is expected 10 become a link in the
Iong-talked-of trolley line between Bait
more and Philadelphia.
An interurban railway Is to he con-
structad between Anderson and Greenvilie,
s. c. connecting in a route OF about thirty
miles Bolton. williamson. Pelzer and Pied
mont. with ultimately an extension 10 Paris
Mountain. FIVE miles from Greenville. The
extension Of the Augusta ard Aiken Eec-
trio Railway for fifty miles from Aiken TO
Columbia is now under survey.
The Tennessee Interurban Electric Rail
way company. a consolidation Of two other
companies, proposes to build a line sixty
five or seventy miles long. running through
Nashville and connecting Columbia and
Gallatin. This road is to be equipped with
both passenger and freight cars and with
The Ohio Valley Traction Company has
Aaon FORMAL IN E1nTFTNEw 20 hTHf1l y nnR
from Cincinnati to Louisville. In Louisiana
the New Orleans and Rail-
road is TO run from HahnyiLe TO MOI
the Beaumont, Port \eches and Port Ar
thur Electric Railway is under construc-
fiOn for a distance OF twenty-five miles.
Close to IL Is the and Sour Lake
Electric Railway. nineteen miles long, for
which a contract has been awarded: while
the Missouri Electric RAILWAY Company
proposes to build q line about Eo miles
long. ultimately connecting ST. Louis and
Around Atlanta, Ga. several electric
railways have been projected. three OF them
to build between Atlanta and Marietta. and
another to build about forty miles OF line.
connecting Atlanta. Roswell. Aipharetta
and Cumming. These are some OF the more
important electric railway projects Of the
South.
There are a number Of others which are
either building or propose TO build short
connect manufacturing and other COM |
munities. The interurban railways noted in |
the Manufacturers Record this week are |
make fast time Ind to conduct q business
similar TO that Of steam railways.
:Durins the last year. IL will be remem-
bered. the Northern Texas Traction Com
pany completed a line about ~thirty-two
miles long between Fort Worth and Dallas. I
Augusta and Aiken Electric Railway was
opened between Augusta. Ca. and Aiken. |
s. c. and the Richmond and Petersburg /
Grafton"