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Dayton & Troy Electric Railway and Piqua Electric Railway & Miami Electric RY
The Dayton & Troy Electric Railway and Piqua Electric Railway and Miami Electric Railway by Scott D Trostel
Soft Cover NOTICE the lower right edge of the cover
8.5 x 11 inches
Approx 69 photos and 10 illustrations
94 pages
Copyright 2012
CONTENTS
Dedicationiii
Prefaceiv
Acknowledgments v
Contentsvi
THE DAYTON & TROY ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY 9
The Piqua Electric Railway Company10
Piqua Edison Electric Illuminating Company19
Miami Valley Railway22
Midway Park25
Union Station at Piqua26
The Dayton Northern Connection27
The Dayton & Troy Electric Railway Company30
The Troy Situation 37
Stops on the D & T 41
The Competition 41
The 1906 Blizzard 42
The Lima Route 43
A Sampling of Interchange48
Fair Time49
A Sampling of the Dispatchers Log50
The D & T Private Car Fleet50
Freight Traffic on the D & T65
Power Generation and Distribution72
The 1913 Flood75
The Tippecanoe Car Barn Fire77
1926 Line Relocation79
Steel Cars81
Receivership82
Receivers Papers 90
Equipment Roster 92
ON THE BACK COVER:
As the 20th century opened, so did the rapid rise of interest in the systems of mass transit along the northern Miami Valley. It was a sign of progress right along side the invention and use of electric generation. It was in 1888 that the progressive industrialists at Piqua first conceived the idea of an electric street railway, which was virtually unheard of. The idea was pressed forward and from it came the Piqua Electric Railway, who began operation along the streets of the City of Piqua in 1890.
Then in 1892 the same group devised the idea to connect the Cities of Piqua and Troy via a second company, the Miami Valley Railway. It too was successful, opening in 1893.
By 1901 proposald were announced almost weekly for the formation of an interurban railway to run through Miami County. It was a group of Dayton businessmen who finally brough reality to the list of proposed electric railways when they began constructing The Dayton & Troy Electric Railway, to connect the City of Dayton with the City of Troy along the Great Miami River Corridor. At Troy it connected with the Miami Valley Railway, this assuring electric railway transportation from Piqua ann the way to Dayton.
The enterprice of the D & T Electric Railway leased the Miami Valley Railway in 1902 thus providing seamless service via a single operator and thus began 30 years of continuous passenger operations and an even stronger freight and package delivery business, the like of which have never been repeated.
This is the story of a small electric railway line that was at least 100 years ahead of its time.
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