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California Railroads: An Encyclopedia of Cable Car, Common ...
An encyclopedia listing describing every known railroad that operated within the state of California between 1851-1992. Includes cable car, common carrier, horsecar, industrial, interurban, logging, monorail, motor and terminal railroads.
Alvin A. Fickewirth, 1992
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Horsecar: Public Transport, Bus, Tramway (industrial), ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A horsecar was an animal-powered streetcar or tram.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
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Railroads of Rhode Island: Shaping the Ocean State's Railways
The first horsecars appeared in New York City in 1832, but the technology was
surprisingly slow to be adopted by other cities, and it wasn't until 1861 that the
first horsecar line was proposed in Providence and enabling legislation was
passed ...
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Straphanging in the USA: Trolleys and Subways in American Life
The horsecar utilized the same type of rails as the railroads, which were just
beginning to appear on the American landscape in the 18305. Traveling on rails
along a set route provided passengers with a much smoother and more reliable
ride.
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The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice ...
Schwab detailed every minute of an evening in which he took a horsecar
downtown to attend a meeting on Fifth Avenue, walked to the Haymarket, rode a
horsecar back the way he had just come to catch a second horsecar heading
north, ...
Timothy Messer-Kruse, 2011
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The American Past: A Survey of American History
Much lighter than omnibuses, pulled by only one horse, running smoothly on rails
, a horsecar ride cost only 5¢. They were constrained by their tracks, Of course. If
there was an Obstruction, they stayed where they were, unable to drive around ...
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Cable Car Days in San Francisco
It is not recorded whether or not all the early horsecars ran on schedule; but the
following episode relates to horsecar railroading in San Francisco : In the
omnibus days there was a wonderful and fearful network of tracks, in the old
downtown ...
Farmers could truck their produce to Oakland and Berkeley. Magnates could
easily reach their headquarters in Oakland by horsecar and in San Francisco by
horsecar and ferry. In the 1870s, a horsecar line ran on Telegraph Road to
Berkeley.
Robin Wolf, Tom Wolf, 2007
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Before long, town life, life in close streets and alleys, will be confined to a few
occupations, and cities will be mere col— lections of shops, warehouses,
factories, and places of business.58 Although the horsecar did not extend the
building ...
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Streetcars of New Jersey: Atlantic Coast
BARNEGAT CITY HORSE RR c1880-c1895 BEACH HAVEN RY c1883-c1915
Two hotel horsecar lines ran on Long Beach Island, a barrier island between
Barnegat Bay/ Little Egg Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. The first horsecar route ...
Joseph F. Eid, Jr., Barker Gummere, Joseph F. Eid, Jr., Barker Gummere, 2007
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What Goes Around Comes Around
(Strictly speaking, a trolley is a streetcar that uses a “trolley pole” to draw electricity from an overhead wire: a horsecar is a streetcar, in other ... «Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 七月 15»
Old MBTA photos
A horsecar trailer is pictured in Harvard Square in 1889 on Boston's second trolley line. In the 1800s, before the subway was built, many people ... «Boston.com, 六月 15»
A brief history of Minneapolis' oldest grocery store
... era when lumber milling still dominated local industry -- a horsecar line traveled to what was then known as 20th Avenue as early as 1890. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, 五月 15»
The College and Spadina intersection
Spadina began in 1878 as a horsecar line that connected a terminus at King and George Sts. near the St. Lawrence Market with the very ... «Toronto Sun, 四月 15»
11 things to know about Castleton Corners on Staten Island's North …
Transit service improved in 1896, when the horsecar line was upgraded to electrical power. The Port Richmond-Prohibition Park Railroad -- an ... «SILive.com, 三月 15»
Allan Katz and Danae Columbus: Streetcar projects off track in some …
Prior to electrification, horsecar companies and lines operated on many streets across the city including Carrollton, Jackson, Louisiana, ... «UptownMessenger.com, 三月 15»
Book review: 'Streetcars of Florida's First Coast'
In 1886, the St. Augustine and South Beach Railroad and Bridge Company operated a horsecar line and constructed a wooden trestle bridge ... «St. Augustine Record, 十二月 14»
New Starts: Toronto Gets New Private Bus, and British Horsecar …
The horse-drawn Douglas Bay Tramway on Britain's Isle of Man, in service since 1876 and one of only a handful of horsecar lines operating ... «Next City, 十月 14»
Streetcars nothing but outdated technology kept alive by political …
... here it is in a nutshell from the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association's History of the Streetcar: “In the beginning there was the horsecar.”. «National Post, 七月 14»
A Book & A Drink: Here's to The Graduate and the Mrs. Robinson …
Mrs. Robinson sure liked to drink and we think she would have approved of this martini (which is technically a Perfect Manhattan or Horsecar). «Toronto Star, 七月 14»
