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Transcriber's note:
The footnote to the first entry says that in the train
schedules, times from noon to midnight are shown in
"dark-face type." In this plain-text edition that cannot
be done, so the letters "p" and "a" have been appended
to each time to indicate AM and PM hours.
Minor typographical errors have been corrected: employes
to employees on p. 1, 129, and 130; nagivation to
navigation on p. 48; conferation to confederation on
p. 46. Inconsistent hyphenation in the original has been
retained.
In this plain-ASCII edition, accented and special
characters have been replaced as follows: The sterling
currency symbol with L; e-acute with ['e]; e-grave with
[`e]; o-umlaut with [:o]; i-umlaut with [:i];
e-circumflex with [^e].
Owing to the method used to scan this work, in a few
cases the first or last letters of a line were lost and
had to be found from other sources or inferred from
context. Where an inference is not certain, the presumed
missing letters are in parentheses with a question mark,
for example "p(art?)". In each of the numbers in the
table on page 130 ("Passengers carried annually," etc.)
the final digit cannot be determined and has been
replaced with 0.
THE GREATEST HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD
Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns,
Cities and Country passed through between New York and Chicago
via The New York Central Lines