Two Ohio Tractions By Wagner Miamisburg & Germantown Lebanon & Franklin
Two Ohio Tractions By Wagner Miamisburg & Germantown Lebanon & Franklin
Two Ohio Tractions By Wagner Miamisburg & Germantown Lebanon & Franklin
Two Ohio Tractions By Wagner Miamisburg & Germantown Lebanon & Franklin

Two Ohio Tractions By Wagner Miamisburg & Germantown Lebanon & Franklin

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Two Ohio Tractions By Wagner Miamisburg & Germantown Lebanon & Franklin
 
Two Ohio Tractions By Wagner Miamisburg & Germantown and The Lebanon & Franklin  
Soft cover   Stapled
Copyright 1974   
40 Pages
INTRODUCTION
It was an established fact in America that growth and prosperity had followed the construction of railroads. The building boom at the century's beginning was in ELECTRIC railroads and it was reported that high profits were to he earned. In 1900 the population of Miamisburg had not yet reached 4,000 and Germantown's was listed at only 1702, hut opportunity seemed to be knocking!
In 1901, George S. Davis writing for the STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL figured that franchises and rights-of-way had been secured for 4,800 miles of electric railways in Ohio. In some portions of the State, he said, there were more electric railway projects than could he kept track of by a United States census official lie quoted from a country newspaper in the northern part of the State, "Electric railway men are thicker than flies in summer these days, and they appear to have entirely superseded the lightning rod agents of former days. The progressive farmers in these parts all have special rooms set for conferences with railway promoters, and hardly a day passes hut they are called into use. A well dressed stranger drives up, and the farmer at once ushers him into the conference room, where paper and pen are kept. The right of way through farm or along highway is signed, and the promoter passes on to the next with neatness and despatch."
One franchise which was secured was by the Dayton, Germantown & Hamilton Railway for private right-of-way between Dayton and Middletown for a road promised to be built "at once" but which never materialized. It was promoted by J. 0. Arnold and T. C. Lindsay of Dayton, said to he backed by the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton steam railroad which had lost much suburban business to the Southern Ohio Traction Company.
A network of loosely connected, overlapping and sometimes clashing, syndicates were promoting the electric railways, roughly the Everett-Moore group in the northern part of Ohio, the Appleyard Interests centrally, and Pomeroy-Mandelbaum in the southern section. The chief aim of the latter was to build a road from Cincinnati to Toledo and to Cleveland. Its Southern Ohio Traction was considered one of the best in the State. In competition Mr. Appleyard controlled the steam road from Dayton to Lebanon which he planned to electrify and extend.
Our TWO OHIO TRACTIONS, the Miamisburg & Germantown and the Lebanon & Franklin, both made connections with the Southern Ohio (which later became part of the huge Ohio Electric and eventually part of the Cincinnati & Lake Erie, one of the most colorful railways in the country.) Although not all roads that were projected in Ohio were built, the two little lines reported here served the people along their routes in a unique and satisfying way even though they lasted less than two decades.

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