The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and PoliticsVarious
General
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
American periodicals
1. A Railroad to Philadelphia.
2. A Railroad to the Pennsylvania Coal Region.
3. A Railroad to Piermont on the Hudson.
4. A Railroad to Bloomfield in New Jersey.
5. A Railroad to Morristown in New Jersey.
6. A Railroad to Hackensack in New Jersey.
7. A Railroad to Buffalo.
8. A Railroad to Albany, running along the Hudson.
9. Another Railroad to Albany, by an interior route.
10. A Railroad to New Haven.
11. A Railroad to the chief eastern port of Long Island.
12. The Delaware and Raritan Road to Philadelphia, connecting with New
York by daily transports from pier.
13. The Camden and Amboy Railroad, connecting similarly.
14. The Railroad to Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The chief eastern radius throws out ramifications to the principal
cities of New England, thus affording liberal choice of routes to
Boston, New Bedford, Providence, and Portland, as well as an entrance to
New Hampshire and Vermont. To all of these towns, except the more
southerly, the Hudson River Road leads as well, connecting besides with
railroads in every direction to the northern and western parts of the
State, and with the Far West by a number of routes. The main avenue to
the Far West is, however, the Atlantic and Great Western Road, with its
twelve hundred miles of uniform broad-gauge. Along this line the whole
riches of the interior may reasonably be expected to flow eastward as in
a trough; for its position is axial, and its connection perfect. All the
chief New Jersey railroads open avenues to the richest mineral region of
the Atlantic States,--to the Far South and the Far West of the country.
Two or three may be styled commuters' roads, running chiefly for the
accommodation of city business-men with suburban residences. The Long
Island Road is a road without important branches; but the majority of
all the roads subsidiary to New York are avenues to some broad and
typical tract of the interior.
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