The Canton and Massillon Electric Railway was an interurban railway in Ohio. It was the first interurban to operate out of Canton, beginning service on July 2, 1892.[1] It was built with an unusual narrow gauge of 4 ft (1,219 mm) to match the street railway gauge of Canton.[2][3] The company's barns, engine, powerhouse, and several pieces of rolling tock were destroyed in a fire on October 3, 1893.[4] The company was purchased by Northern Ohio Traction in 1902.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Sanders, Craig (2009). Canton Area Railroads. Arcadia Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 9780738561110.
- ^ Poor's Manual of Railroads (30 ed.). H.V. & H.W. Poor. 1897. p. 1032 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hilton, George W. & Due, John Fitzgerald (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. OCLC 237973. "Worst of all, not all city systems were built to the standard American and European gauge of 4'-81⁄2"...Canton and Pueblo 4'-0"."
- ^ "Fires". McGraw Publishing. The Engineering Record. October 7, 1893. p. 323. Retrieved August 12, 2025.
- ^ "Is Granted A Franchise". The Cleveland Leader. Cleveland, Ohio. January 29, 1902. p. 6. Retrieved August 12, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
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