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NOT&L Story By Blower & Korach CERA Bulletin #109 1966 Dust Jacket N.O.T.&L.
The NOT & L Story By James Blower & Robert Korach CERA Bulletin 109 Laos including Stark Electric Twin City Traction, Inter-city Rapid Transit, Mahoning Valley Line, Salem. Dust Jacket, Copyright 1966 268 Pages DUST JACKET HAS some damage.
THE Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company reflected the rise and decline of the great Interurban electric railway in America. Its several components were constructed by rival groups around the turn of the twentieth century, occasionally with bitter battles over rival routes and franchises. It served, after the consolidation in 1906, a string of towns and cities stretching from Cleveland on the north, through Akron, Canton and Massillon to New Philadelphia and Urichsville on the south. It absorbed all the local streetcar lines along the way, save Cleveland, using them as an entrance into the centers of towns, between which the line operated over private rights-of-way along side of roads or across open faun lands.
With the Teens, profitable operations brought the upgrading of the line, with relocations of portions of the interurban routes and extensions of city lines. The Twenties brought the automobile and the Northern Ohio purchased new fast steel cars to stave off the competition. But, alas, with the decline of patronage, the line fell easy prey to the depression of 1929. The interurban and all city service except in Akron were abandoned by 1932, although the segment of interurban line between Canton and Massillon was purchased by local businessmen and operated until 1940.
Also included in this volume are the histories of five associated and connecting electric railways. Three were at one time or other part of the NOT&L family tree (Cleveland Alliance and Mahoning Valley Railroad, Inter-City Rapid Transit, and Twin Cities Traction), and two were independent operations (Stark Electric, and the Salem city lines).
For additional history of the electric railways of the region, including the Cleveland lines and the Youngstown lines, the reader is referred to CERA Bulletin 108, ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO.
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