Trolley Tales
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Operations and Sale of Electricity
Electric Railway Operations and Sale of Electricity: Electric railways often were the first major users of electric power in an area and, thus, were forced to build their own power stations. Furthermore, because this was the time when electricity was…
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The Electric Railway Journal
The Electric Railway Journal: In 1884, McGraw Hill began weekly publication of the Street Railway Journal, a trade periodical for the mostly horse-drawn street railways that had proliferated in the US and Canada by that time. From the start, it…
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American Street Railway Association
The American Street Railway Association was first organized in Boston on 12 Dec, 1882, as trade organization to discuss problems associated, initially with the operation of horse drawn streetcars including such matters as the care of horses and the cost…
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The Rapid Acceptance of Electric Railways
Picture: Cleveland’s Broadway & Newburgh Street Ry #51, Columbus Metropolitan Library. Primitive as Victorian era trolleys may seem to us today, in their time they were the product of cutting edge technology. Consider what was being accomplished. The earliest understanding…
