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Notes

1. “Growing Freight Business in Cincinnati,” Fairdealing (11 Nov. 1930): 6–7, author’s collection. Fairdealing was Cincinnati & Lake Erie’s monthly employee magazine. Typical issues contained photos, articles, maps, and brief items on employees. See also Jack Keenan, Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad, Ohio’s Great Interurban System (San Marino, Calif.: Golden West Books, 1974) for freight and passenger service of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton and Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroads during the 1920s and the 1930s.

2. “With Its House in Order, C., H. & D. Goes after Business,” reprinted from the Electric Railway Journal 69 (24 Sept. 1927): 16, by Thomas Conway, Jr., president of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railway; Electric Railways Freight Company, “ Gross Revenue of Freight Handled Lake Shore Electric Railway Company,” December 1929, Ohio Historical Society, Manuscript Collections ( hereafter cited as ERF Report).

3. ERF Report, December 1929

4. C. Porter, superintendent, Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company, letter to E. O. Eichelberger, city manager, Dayton, Ohio, 11 July 1929, with attached record of “freight train operations over the streets of Dayton during the month of June 1929,” Wright State University, Dayton City Manager Collection: Archives and Special Collections.

5. Fairdealing (11 Nov. 1930): 7.

6. ERF Report, November, December 1928; June, July 1929.

7. J. L. Nuber, Jr., general superintendent, Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad, interview with author, Dayton, Ohio, 26 May 1971.

8. Cincinnati Car Company “Specifications,” shop orders 3050 and 3055, ten limited and ten local passenger cars for the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railway company, 5 Nov. 1929, p. 1, author’s collection. See also William D. Middleton, Extra Fast and Extra Fare, vol. 2 of Traction Classics: The Interurbans (San Marino: Golden West Books, 1985), 298–305.

9. “Specifications,” 7–8.

10. Ed Blossom, a highly regarded street-railway restoration specialist, is president of the Dushore Car Company. He has examined the car bodies of 110 and 117 in detail.

11. E. E. Kearns, “Modern Light-weight High-speed Interurban Cars,” General Electric Review (July 1932): 374–75.

12. “Requisition for railway control apparatus . . .,” General Electric Company, filed on behalf of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railway, 10 Oct. 1929, copy in the author’s collection. The requisition list includes ten PC-12-E automatic controllers with accelerating relays set to drop out at 280 amps. In 1932 Cincinnati & Lake Erie raised the setting to 320 amps in an effort to increase the cars’ rate of acceleration. Also included in the requisition are ten ME-67-E-2 field control switches, with relays set to drop out at 180 amps.

13. Kearns, “Modern Light-weight High-speed Interurban Cars,” 375.

14. William L. Butler, letter to Mr. Crawford, 1 Sept. 1961, copy in author’s collection.

15. Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad, time table effective 19 December 1930. This is C&LE’s first consolidated time table, showing the Cincinnati–Detroit parlor-car service.

16. Russell E. Jackson, letter to Ed Blossom, 4 Oct. 1986, in author’s collection. Jackson suggests that Conway’s master mechanics, engineers, etc. were probably not skilled in the mechanical and electrical aspects of the new technology, making its adoption somewhat of a gamble. (Jackson is today a noted transit consultant.)

17. William Eastep, “Freight Conductor’s Car Record” (sometimes called the “Wheel Report”), 11 Nov. 1930, author’s collection. Eastep’s record helps confirm that the Cincinnati & Lake Erie billed freight motors from Cincinnati to Detroit and return. See also Fairdealing (11 Aug. 1931): 3.

18. Loiry, “Car Record,” 30 Mar., 13 Apr. 1931, author’s collection. Loiry’s first name is unknown.

19. Eastep, “Car Record,” 11 Dec. 1930; 6, 13, Jan. 1931. The entries confirm that the Cincinnati & Lake Erie and Lake Shore Electric began joint service between Cincinnati and Cleveland in late 1930. See also Ed Williams, “Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad Company,” Headlights and Markers, bulletin number 98 (1948): 3. Headlights and Markers was a publication of the Cincinnati Railroad Club. Williams describes freight train movement to and from Cincinnati’s Cumminsville depot during the early 1930s. He states, “The last of the night trains to arrive was the celebrated Cleveland freight at 8 A.M. This was the longest interurban freight run in the country.”

20. ERF Report, November, December 1930; April, May 1931. These reports show freight carried during the stated months between Cleveland and Dayton via Fremont by the Lake Shore Electric-Lima Route joint interline service.

21. In the District Court of the United States, Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, Pennsylvania Company, etc., Plaintiff, v. Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad Company, Defendant, No. 323, In Equity (At Dayton), “Transcript of Record of Proceedings Had before Sidney G. Kusworm, Special master, at Dayton, Ohio, on October 24, 25 and 26 1933,” p. 40 (hereafter cited as “Transcript 1933”). Cincinnati & Lake Erie and its unions argued their positions before the special master regarding the propriety of a wage increase.

22. Fred. Hoffman, interview with author, Lima, Ohio, 23 May 1971.

23. “Report of the Director of the Bureau of Safety Concerning an Accident which Occurred on the C&LE R. R. at Elk Creek Siding on June 30 1932,” ICC 1770.

24. David A. Shannon, Twentieth Century America: The United States since the 1890s (Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1963), 302; Richard N. Current, et al., American History: A Survey, vol. 2, Since 1865, 7th ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987), 708.

25. “Transcript 1933,” p. 48.

26. Ibid.

27. “New Assignment of Runs in Accordance with Time Table No. 16, effective Sunday, March 8th , 1936,” p. 2, signed by J. S. Duncan, superintendent, Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad Company: Toledo division, Railroad Collections, Allen County Historical Society, Lima, Ohio. Commonly called a bid sheet, the division posted a document each schedule change to permit C&LE trainmen to designate their preferred runs. The division awarded runs on the basis of seniority. The 8 March schedule cites four daily Cleveland trains: the “1st and 2nd Cleveland-Cincinnati trains” and the “1st and 2nd Cincinnati-Cleveland trains.”

28. Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., and Robert S. Korach, The Lake Shore Electric Railway Story (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), 129. Harwood provides an excellent summary of Lake Shore Electric’s freight operation throughout the 1920s and 1930s on pages 217–30.

29. “Hearing before the Honorable Robert R. Nevin, District Judge, at Dayton, Ohio, on application of the Receivers [of the Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad] for an Order of Abandonment of Portion of Rail Line,” 29 Oct. 1937, p. 24. These are the proceedings of the hearing in which C&LE petitioned the court for the right to abandon its Toledo Division (rail line from Springfield to Toledo).

30. Ibid., 27.

31. Ibid., 42.