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850    RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. Columbus
to Cleveland, via Grafton, 135 miles.

I Iron. Ironton to Jackson Furnace, 25 miles,
f
Cleveland and Pittsburg. Cleveland, via Alli-
ance, to Wellsville,
100 miles.

Branch. Hudson to Akron, 8 miles.

Note. A few of the above roads, marked *, are not yet entirely finished for the distances stated. A large number
of others, marked f, have extensive continuations in progress. Other very important, roads are under way, including
a line (large parts of which are already built) extending direct from Wheeling, via Columbus, Indianapolis, and
Terre Haute, to St. Louis ; another line, from Wheeling, via Marietta, to Cincinnati, and thence, via Vincennes, to St.
Louis, communicating from Wheeling with Hempstead, on the Pittsburg and Philadelphia road, and by a branch from
Parkersburg, near Marietta, with the Baltimore and Ohio Road. An important system of roads is also in progress in
Illinois, extending from Cairo to Chicago and Galena.    1

COMPARATIVE SPEED ON THE PRINCIPAL RAILROADS OF THE U. STATES,

(the speed being that of the swiftest trains.) From Fisher's “American Railway Guide.''

Note. — In the compilation of the following Table, the time set down is that spent by trains moving along the whole
length of the road, and includes all the stoppages on the routes.

Railroads.

Length.

Miles.

Time.

H. M.

Speed
per hour.
Miles.

Railroads.

Length.

Miles.

Time

H. M

Speed
per hour.
Miles.

Albany & Buffalo Route....

328

10 15

32.00

New Hampshire Central....

26

1 15

20.80

Androscoggin & Kennebec.

82

3 30

23.43

New Haven & New London

50

2 10

23.15

Atlantic & St. Lawrence...

122

6 00

20.33

New Jersey................

87

4 00

21.75

Baltimore & Susquehanna..

82

4 30

18.22

New Jersey Central........

78

4 00

19.50

Baltimore & Ohio..........

282

13 45

20.51

New York & New Haven...

76

3 00

25.33

Boston, Concord & Montreal

71

2 50

25.00

New Haven & Northampton,

45

2 10

20-79

Boston & Maine............

74

3 00

24.66

N. Hav., Hart. & Springfield

62

1 55

32.34

Boston & Providence.......

43

1 15

30.44

New London & Palmer.....

66

3 00

22.00

Boston & Worcester........

45

1 25

31-77

Norfolk County............

35

1 30

23.33

Buffalo,Corning & New York

45

2 15

20.00

Northern New Hamshire ...

69

2 50

24.34

Buffalo & New York City...

60

3 00

20.00

Norwich & Worcester......

66

2 22

27.89

Buffalo & State Line.......

69

3 20

20.72

Northern (Ogdensburg)....

118

4 20

27.22

Camden & Amboy.........

Canandaigua & Elmira ....

62

67

2 15
2 30

27.55

26.80

Ohio & Pennsylvania.......

Old Colony................

134

37

7 30
1 45

17.86

21.15

Central Georgia............

Central Ohio...............

191

59

9 15
3 30

20.65

16.86

Oswego & Syracuse........

Peru & Indianapolis........

35

22

1 45
1 45

20.00

12.59

Champlain & St. Lawrence..

47

2 30

18.80

Petersburg................

64

3 30

18.28

Cheshire...................

64

2 30

25.60

Philadelphia & Reading....

93

3 45

24.80

Cine.,Cleveland & Columbus

135

5 45

23.48

Phila.,Wilming.& Baltimore

98

4 00

24.50

Cincin., Hamilton & Dayton
Cincinnati & Hillsboro' ....

60

2 30

24.00

Portland,Saco & Portsmouth

51

2 15

22.66

60

3 35

16.74

Portsmouth & Concord.....

47

2 00

23.50

Cleveland & Pittsburg......

100

5 05

19.97

Providence & Worcester...

43

1 50

23.46

Columbia & Philadelphia..

82

4 15

19.29

Providence, Hart. & Fishkill

50

2 45

18.18

Concord...................

35

1 10

29.99

Rensselaer & Saratoga ....

32

1 05

19.63

Connecticut River..........

50

2 00

25.00

Richmond, Fred. & Potomac

75

5 20

14.07

Connecticut & Passumpsie

61

2 15

27.11

Richmond & Danville......

65

3 30

18.57

Dayton & Greenville.......

35

2 00

17.50

Richmond & Petersburg ...

22

1 45

12.59

Eastern....................

54

2 30

21.60

Roch., Lock. & Niagara Falls

76

2 37

29.05

East Tennessee & Georgia..

82

4 00

20.50

Rutland & Burlington......

120

4 15

28.02

Erie.......................

409

17 00

27.59

Rutland & Washington ....

62

1 55

32.34

Fall River....,............

42

1 25

29.66

Sandusky, Mans. & Newark

117

6 30

18.00

Fitchburg..................

50

1 40

30.12

Sangamon & Morgan.......

54

6 00

9.00

Fitchburg & Worcester.....

26

1 00

26.00

Saratoga & Schenectady...

22

45

29.33

Galena & Chicago Union...

92

5 20

17.26

Saratoga & Washington ...

52

1 55

27.23

171

94

10 30

16 28

20

80

50
3 30

24.00
22.86
24.72
12.50

25.00
21.33

6 00

15.66

130

6 10

21.07

20.95

35.59

20.36

137

50

50

5 30
4 00

no

5 15

144

4 05

2 00

Hudson & Berkshire.......

34

1 40

St. Lawrence & Atlantic ...

96

4 30

51

4 00

12.75

21.20

25

73

1 00

25.00

16.60

Kennebec & Portland......

60

2 50

Terre Haute & Richmond..

4 25

Lackawana & Western.....

50

2 00

25.00

Vermont Central..........

162

5 50

27-74

Little Miami...............

65

2 55

22.33

Vermont & Massachusetts..

56

2 25

23.17

4 30

21.11

17.46

24

104

55
7
10

26.18

14.51

Louisville & Frankfort......

65

3 40

Virginia Central...........

Macon & Western..........

101

5 15

19.24

Vicksburg,Brand. & Jackson

60

3 45

16.00

Madison & Indianapolis....

86

4 15

20.23

Washington Branch.......

38

1 40

22.72

Mad River & Lake Erie....

158

9 30

16.63

Watertown & Rome........

97

4 25

21.94

Michigan Central..........

278

11 05

25.27

Western...................

200

7 30

26-66

Mich. South. & Nor. Indiana

247

12 00

20.58

Western Vermont.........

52

1 40

31.26

Milwaukie & Mississippi....

43

2 00

21.50

Western & Atlantic........

140

10 00

14.00

Montgomery & West Point

88

6 30

13.54

Wilmington & Weldon ....

162

10 30

15.42

Morris & Essex............

44

2 38

16.73

Wilmington & Manchester..

44

2 45

16.00

Nashville & Chattanooga..

77

3 50

20.10

Winchester & Potomac ....

32

2 00

16.00

Naugatuck................

62

2 55

21.26

Worcester & Nashua.......

45

1 52

24.06

New Albany & Salem.......

65

3 30

18.56 |


t Ohio and Pennsylvania. Worster, via Alliancei
to Pittsburg, 134 miles.

Cleveland, Painesville, and Ashtabula. Cleveland
to Erie, 95 miles.

* Cleveland, Norwalk, and Toledo. Grafton to
Toledo.





A Gazetteer of the United States of America by John Hayward.

Hartford, CT: Case, Tiffany and Company. 1853. Public domain



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