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of which ten are classified as major systems, includ- 

 ing the Michigan Central, New York Central, Pere 

 Marquette, Wabash, Grank Trunk, Detroit, Toledo 

 and Ironton, the Detroit and Toledo Shore Line, 

 Pennsylvania, Canadian Pacific, and the Detroit 

 United Eailway. The line last named is an electric 

 system with wide ramifications. The Canadian 

 Pacific has only passenger service into the city, while 

 the Detroit and Toledo Shore Line provides only 

 freight service. There are five terminal railways to 

 assist the local distribution of freight. The railroads 

 which enter the city have twenty-eight freight-houses 

 and sixty-two sets of team tracks, with a combined 

 capacity of 2,989 cars. These are the terminal and 

 shipping facilities available to shippers not pos- 

 sessed of private trackage."- 



Four lines of lake steamers make Detroit their 

 home port or port of call. These lines are desig- 

 nated the Great Lakes Transit Company, the Detroit 

 and Cleveland Navigation Company, the White Star 

 Line, and the Ashley and Dustin Line. These lines 

 operated thirty-seven vessels in 1920, whose total 

 freight capacity was 122,500 tons. 



The distribution of freight by motor truck, both 

 inter-city and intra-city, is said to be dominated by 

 the Detroit Transportation Association, of 400 to 

 500 members, operating 2,000 motor and 500 team 

 trucks, whose aggregate capacity is 7,000 tons.^ It 

 is estimated that about half of the mileage of im- 



^Ibid., 37. 

 mid., 40. 



