BVM August, 2016 - page 111

Business View Magazine - August 2016 111
lative matters, primarily on the federal level. Annual
dues were five dollars. By 1915, its membership had
increased to 75. In 1916, the SLRA of the Southeast
combined with the SLRA of the Southwest to form the
Short Line Association of the South, with 115 mem-
bers. That year, there were 254,037 miles of railroad
track in the United States.
Between 1917 and 1921, more short line organiza-
tions merged together to increase the ranks of the
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