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	Detroit Panorama
		By the mid-1880's, all the major avenues radiating from Campus Martius were served by horsecars.
		At least twice during the thirty-year horsecar era, the whole city was shut down when equine epidemics decimated the horse population.
		Long before electric streetcars became feasible in the late 1880's, horsecar operators had sought a replacement for the horse.
	www.merit.edu /~jimmoran/detphot/hrscar.html (421 words)

	Cable Car Heritage
		Andrew Smith Hallidie tested the first cable car at 4 o'clock in the morning, August 2nd, 1873, on Clay Street, in San Francisco.
		His idea for a steam engine powered - cable driven - rail system was conceived in 1869, after witnessing horses being whipped while they struggled on the wet cobblestones to pull a horsecar up Jackson Street.
		As the story goes, the horses slipped and were dragged to their death.
	cablecarmuseum.org /heritage.html (478 words)

	horsecar - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		horsecar : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		horsecar : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=horsecar (116 words)

	Horsecar - Webb.pl - Najwieksza Encyklopedia Internetowa - AdWiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A horsecar was an animal-powered streetcar (or tram).
		Problems with horsecars included the fact that any given animal could only work so many hours on a given day, had to be housed, groomed, fed and cared for day in and day out, and produced prodigious amounts of manure, which the streetcar company was charged with storing and then disposing of.
		Horsecars were largely replaced by electric-powered streetcars following the invention by Frank J. Sprague of an overhead trolley system on streetcars for collecting electricity from overhead wires.
	www.webb.pl /en/wiki/Horsecar (700 words)

	Horsecar Information
		A horsecar was an animal-powered streetcar (or tram).
		Problems with horsecars included the fact that any given animal could only work so many hours on a given day, had to be housed, groomed, fed and cared for day in and day out, and produced prodigious amounts of manure, which the streetcar company was charged with storing and then disposing of.
		Horsecars were largely replaced by electric-powered streetcars following the invention by Frank J. Sprague of an overhead trolley system on streetcars for collecting electricity from overhead wires.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Horsecar (566 words)

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		By 1855, the horsecar had forced the omnibus off the major thoroughfares and onto secondary routes in New York; by 1860, the same process was taking place in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Montreal, and Boston.
		The great advantage of the horsecar obviously lay in its use of rails, which made possible a much smoother ride at a speed (six to eight miles per hour) almost twice as fast as the omnibus, an important consideration if one lived at a distance from work.
		At the turn of the century, when the horsecar had virtually disappeared from American streets, it was still the dominant form of urban transport in Britain.
	nusd.marin.k12.ca.us /novatohi/TeacherSites/Tirrell/actionArslan/background.htm (2480 words)

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		말자동차(horsecar)가 약관을 개정할 경우에는 적용일자 및 개정사유를 명시하여 현행약관과 함께 말자동차(horsecar)의 초기화면에 그 적용일자 7일 이전부터 적용일자 전일까지 공지합니다.
		말자동차(horsecar)가 회원에 대한 통지를 하는 경우, 회원이 말자동차(horsecar)과 미리 약정하여 지정한 전자우편 주소로 할 수 있습니다.
		말자동차(horsecar)는 회원의 운송 및 수입대행신청이 있는 경우 말자동차(horsecar)의 회원주문정보란에 주문정보가 자동 노출되도록 합니다.
	www.horsecar.co.kr /FrontStore/iUserApplForm.phtml (2009 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / HORSE POWER
		The horsecar operation grew and prospered until by 1893 the Fourth Avenue line, though only eight and a half miles long, carried 21.8 million passengers a year and was valued at $24.9 million.
		Street-railway workers were kept well in their place until very late in the horsecar era; the violence and disruption of the great 1877 railway strike seem to have inspired not the slightest initiative on their part.
		Horsecar operations stayed on until a better traffic developed or some way was found to abandon the line entirely.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1992/1/1992_1_40_print.shtml (4885 words)

	HC-photos
		Horsecar drivers were instructed to walk their horses across the track crossings as a horse could easily get a hoof caught in the rails.
		A one horse, horsecar is north bound headed for Union Depot.
		The last horsecar line to be electrified was the Oak Street line in February 1892.
	www.columbusrailroads.com /hc-photos.htm (1225 words)

	Amazon.com: Horsecar: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Horsecars and cobblestones by Sophie Ruskay (Unknown Binding - 1973)
		Horsecars and Cobblestones by Sophie Ruskay (Hardcover - 1949)
		The horsecars and the electrics: Taunton Street Railway Company, Taunton Division, Old Colony Street Railway Co., and the independent lines operating in...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Horsecar&tag=540-20&index=books&linkCode=ur2&page=1 (647 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		One of the advantages was the low rolling resistance of metal wheels on iron or steel rails (usually grooved from 1852 on), allowing the animals to haul a greater load for a given effort over the omnibus.
		Pittsburgh, PA had the last horsecar line in the US in regular service, where the Sarah Street line lasted until 1923.
		Replica horsecar lines are in operation at all Disney theme parks except Tokyo and Hong Kong as part of the parks' Main Street, U.S.A. "themed land".
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Horsecar (603 words)

	Quahog.org: Mass Transit In Rhode Island, Part 5 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Horsecar workers received a two-dollar-a-day salary at the inception of service in 1865.
		John Benchley, who operated the first Union Railroad horsecar in 1865, remembered: "We worked from early morning until late at night without any regard to time." Later in his career he ran a route from 11:42am until midnight with only short breaks at the end of each trip.
		Another horsecar veteran claimed that "working days were measured by the rise and set of the sun rather than any prescribed hours of labor." By the 1880s a day's labor had been whittled to twelve hours but with a wrinkle.
	quahog.org /factsfolklore/index.php?id=80 (1491 words)

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		Basically the horsecar was a vehicle drawn by horses that was placed on rails, rather than riding freely on the ground as the omnibus.
		Horsecars were profitable for Whitney, but there were a number of disadvantages for the company and it's riders.
		He was looking for a new mode of transportation that would not have all the maintenance and problems of the horse railways.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364proj/sprg_98/ciepielowski/horsecar.htm (655 words)

	New York Press - JESSICA WILLIS -
		Her crinoline (which Stacey refers to as "the cross borne by every fashionable lady of the Civil War era") snagged on a metal hook on the side of the car, and when the car lurched forward, Mollie and her packages were thrown to the ground.
		She was dragged along the paving stones for nearly a block before onlookers could get the driver to stop the horsecar.
		I can only imagine that after the horsecar accident, she simply gave up and renounced the modern rat race just as it was getting started.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=6262 (2216 words)

	Horse Railways (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Hastings, for example, the owners of one of the new subdivisions boasted street cars on three sides of their land, and the cars on one line bore the sign "Dawes and Foss Addition." Similar situations prevailed at Beatrice, Columbus, Nebraska City, Norfolk, Grand Island, Kearney, Red Cloud, South Sioux City, Wymore, and York.
		As a passenger clambered aboard a horsecar (usually at the front platform) the driver held the horses still, and the passenger was expected to drop his nickel or celluloid "check" into the fare box.
		Horsecars were operated irregularly or not at all in various Nebraska towns after 1889.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /publish/publicat/timeline/horse_railways.htm (393 words)

	The Centerville Horsecar
		A single horse pulled a small four-wheel horsecar for passengers, at 10 cents per trip.
		A ride on the branch line took thirty minutes, one way, and the horsecar made regular connections three-times-a-day with the steam-powered passenger trains that arrived daily at Newark.
		The Centerville horsecar lasted until the opening of the standard gauge Southern Pacific Dumbarton Cutoff, when steam trains at last took over.
	centervilledepot.railfan.net /centervillehorsecar.html (541 words)

	Quahog.org: Mass Transit in Rhode Island, Part 4 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		New York City was host to the first horsecar on rails in the United States in 1832, as it had been for the first omnibus a year earlier.
		Horsecar entrepreneurs probably paused after an incident almost a year earlier in 1862 when voters rejected a request by the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill (steam) Railroad to lay a mile of track from wharves at India Point to the Sabin Street depot.
		Horsecars left Weybosset Bridge at Market Square in Providence and trotted through Canal, Smith, Charles, Randall, and North Main Streets, across the Pawtucket city line by way of the old turnpike and into Pawtucket on Pine and Main Streets.
	www.quahog.org /factsfolklore/index.php?id=79 (1547 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - The Sutter Street Railway
		These property owners felt that the nearest horsecar service (the Central Railroad) was too distant to ensure the development of their properties.
		The franchise awarded to the FSM&ORR stated that the company was to extend the branch westward on Pacific Avenue to "the ocean when Pacific Ave is extended to said location." The first phase was to be to Pierce Street; a point reached by the construction crews in late September.
		Conversion of the property from horsecar to cable operations took place in 1876, and on January 27, 1877 the line initiated revenue service, running from the intersection of Market and Sutter Streets west on Sutter to Larkin.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccsfssr_tech.html (6649 words)

	Cable Car Company - Sutter Street Railroad
		Henry Casebolt, another pioneer of urban transportation, operated horsecar lines in the City throughout the 1860s.
		Converting the old horsecar line to cable was completed in 1876 and the line officially opened on January 27, 1877.
		The cable line proved a tremendous success over its previous horsecar system, increasing its ridership by 962,000 in the first year of operation.
	www.cablecarmuseum.org /co-sutter-st.html (467 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Cable Car Transfers
		Because of the Russian Hill component of the franchise when the Clay Street Hill Railroad, the world's first cable car line, was being planned management put in place a connecting feeder horsecar line that served the Russian Hill area to meet the terms of the franchise.
		Horsecar service ran from the Union Ferry Terminal to Washington and Columbus Avenue (Montgomery) where passengers transferred to one of the line’s cable trains.
		The transfer on the upper right is from the cable car era, providing for a transfer from horsecar to cable train and to and from the company’s connecting steam motor line.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/cctransfers.html (8159 words)

	Historical Atlas of Cincinnati
		From 1860 to 1876 eight more routes were added, and by 1880, with the help of the Inclines, the Horsecar routes extended far outside of the basin.
		In addition there were elaborate houses at the tops of the Inclines so that those who lived in the basin could gain respite, even for an evening, from the pollution.
		The Horsecar Routes in the basin were connected to those above by the Inclines.
	www.nku.edu /~hisgeo/AtlasProject (1598 words)

	The LoDo District - Virtual Tour of LoDo
		The Denver City Railway Company constructed the first horsecar line in the city in 1871 along the 1600 Block of Larimer Street.
		The growth of the horsecar lines spurred the spread of the working population to the suburbs and promoted the growth of residential neighborhoods such as Capitol Hill, Highlands, and Curtis Park.
		The stables were on the second and third floors; the fourth floor was used for hay and grain storage.
	www.lodo.org /walking_tour/denver_city_railway.htm (284 words)

	San Francisco's Horsecars, Steam Lines, Electric Cars &... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Horsecar service finally ended with the Lower Market Street Agreement between the City and the United Railroads (URR).
		Under the agreement the single URR franchise Market Street horsecar between Sansome and the Ferry was ended, URR Sutter Street streetcars now ran to the Ferry and the City’s Geary Street cars used the outside Market Street tracks to reach the Ferry.
		The account of the last horsecar trip appeared in The San Francisco Examiner, June 4, 1913.
	www.cablecarmuseum.org /archive/Library/lib2.htm (155 words)

	g scale horsecar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Broster scheduled a full-scale excavation for October and as the bones were uncovered Breitburg was able to examine them and determine the age and sex of the animal.
		would be characterized as a horsecar, an electrically powered one...
		City had the last regular horsecar lines in the U.S., closing...
	www.modeltrainmania.com /g_scale1/gscalehorsecar (680 words)

	horsecar - Hot Search Site (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Prices are competitive from sellers offering new and used horsecar in just the model that you've been hoping to find.
		Ask yourself if the horsecar that you have come across are going to be adequate for your needs.
		Remember, your horsecar is only a good buy if it delivers such things as durability, warranty, and performance.
	www.hotsearchsite.com /horsecar (263 words)

	Evolution of the Trolley - The Twin Cities
		They had their horsecar railway, cable railways, electric railway, and electric railway with a counterbalance, and they experimented with other means of power such as a "soda motor".
		While it might be argued that there were horsecars hauled by small steam locomotives prior to 1867, the first horsecar railway in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Street Railway, began service on September 2, 1875.
		A few years following, in Minneapolis, the idea of converting their horsecar railways to cable railways was also in the mind of many and the city council forced the MSR to begin conversion.
	www.railroadinfo.com /features/eot/twincities.html (983 words)

	A Brief History of Baltimore's Transit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By 1854, the idea of initiating horsecar service along Baltimore Street had been presented before the City Council, at which point politics took over, and debates caused the actual construction of the line to be delayed for several years while the logisitics (mainly financial) were worked out.
		Professor Leo Daft, in 1885, began an experiment on the Baltimore and Hampden lines to use electric power to propel former horsecars along the rather steep and curving line between 40th and Roland and Oak (Howard) and 25th Streets.
		Although the success of the line is debatable, it is known that the line reverted to horse power in 1889, as the electrical equipment used by the line wore out.
	www.btco.net /bthist.htm (1818 words)

	Canal Street - Picture 43
		At the right foreground, another blur marks a moving horsecar on the outer riverbound track; it might be on any of the Annunciation, Coliseum, (North) Claiborne, or Tulane lines.
		Just to the right of that car is a more solid image of a horsecar on the inner riverbound track, on the Magazine or Prytania line.
		Immediately to our left from the turntable is a starter's house, and between the starter's house and the Clay statue is a horsecar on the loop for the Orleans RR lines.
	www-sal.cs.uiuc.edu /~friedman/canal/Pic043.htm (210 words)

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