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Lake Shore Electric Railway
The Lake Shore Electric Railway (LSE) was an interurban electric railway that ran primarily between Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio by way of Sandusky and Fremont. Through arrangements with connecting interurban lines, it also offered service from Fremont to Fostoria and Lima, Ohio, and at Toledo to Detroit and Cincinnati.
== History ==
The LSE was formed in 1901 and was composed of four predecessor street car and interurban lines. All were owned by the Everett-Moore Syndicate. Operations under the Lake Shore Electric name operated a 60-mile route between Cleveland and Toledo. In 1907, the company constructed a cutoff between Sandusky and Fremont, Ohio, which reduced the distance between Cleveland and Toledo by five miles and 30 minutes. The old and the new route were operated with hourly passenger service where a two car interurban from Cleveland separated at Sandusky and met and recoupled at Fremont to continue to Toledo. This service continued to 1939.〔Harwood, "Lake Shore Electric Ry, p17-19.〕
Business for the LSE was good until the mid 1920s, as it was as for most interurbans. Roads were mostly unpaved, very muddy or dusty, and cartage and passenger transportation was horse drawn and slow. Around 1925, the states began paving highways, the counties began paving rural roads, the cities began paving streets, and inexpensive cars began to be produced in growing numbers. Business for interurbans began to drop as a result, and by 1930 many interurbans had stopped operating. The LSE barely remained in business, but making matters worse, the economic collapse of the Great Depression was underway.〔Harwood, Chapter 2,〕
Starting around 1930, the LSE established a productive and growing freight business with neighboring interurban Cincinnati and Lake Erie RR. Together, the two traction lines with their connection at Toledo provided overnight delivery from the approximately 300 miles between Cincinnati and Cleveland. Steam railroads were unable to provide such fast service by a matter of days. At Toledo in 1936, 17000 pounds of freight passed between the two lines according to the CEO of the C&LE 〔Keenan, "Conway stated that..."〕(See Wikipedia regarding the C&LE). Although barely profitable, the resulting freight business generated income allowing the two lines to survive and keeping its employees working. However, the deepening Great Depression further reduced this freight business, and the LSE declared bankruptcy in 1933. Operations continued under the direction of a court appointed bankruptcy Receiver. In 1937, LSE freight-service employees went on strike, and the LSE Receiver terminated freight operations that same day.〔Harwood, p230〕 The next year, the railroad abandoned all operations which now were now only passennger. This also affected the Toledo connecting C&LE with the loss of freight business to Cleveland, and the C&LE abandoned in 1939.〔Harwood, pp226-230〕
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