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	THE STREET RAILWAY HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES
		The route from Washington and Main Streets via Washington to Figueroa to Jefferson was discontinued in 1892, and the franchise abandoned on account of the expense entailed by the paving of Figueroa Street.
		The third section was opened from Main and Requena Streets to North Broadway and Workman Streets, Nov. 1, 1889; from Seventh Street and Grand Avenue to Jefferson Street and Grand Avenue, in November, 1889; and from Seventh Street and Grand Avenue to Seventh and Alvarado Streets, December 9, 1889.
		Street railways in Los Angeles in those days were anything but a safe investment, and although we find that almost all the lines of the city are now (1921) under one control they still were not successful financially.
	www.erha.org /railwayhis.htm (4307 words)

	Street Railways
		Chicago had one of the largest street railway systems in the world before it was replaced by buses in the 1950s.
		The street railway systems in 1867 tried replacing horses with small steam locomotives called “dummies,” but the public objected to the smoke, noise, and sparks they generated.
		The street railways were the victims of their own high costs, increased use of the automobile, overregulation, and population migrations to the suburbs.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1207.html (818 words)

	Fenchurch Street railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fenchurch Street is a railway station in the south eastern corner of the City of London close by the Tower of London and two miles (3.2 km) east of Charing Cross.
		The station became the London terminus of the London Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSandR) in 1858; additionally, from 1850 until the opening of Broad Street station in 1865 it was also the City terminus of the North London Railway.
		Fenchurch Street is one of the four stations whose names are used in the standard UK edition of the game of Monopoly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fenchurch_Street_railway_station (655 words)

	Notes Towards a Street Railway History of Chatham, Ontario
		Next, the street railway by-law was introduced and read the first time, defining the streets to be run upon and providing that the cars shall be run regularly within five years, the limit of time granted, to which the by-law shall apply being fifty years.
		J.R. Reid, President of the Chatham Street Railway, is in communication with the Mead Electric Light Co., of Toronto, in regard to their new system of electric lighting and motive power, whereby a dynamo is absolutely dispensed with and a simple chemical battery substituted therefore.
		The question of having a street railway or not having one is an important question to the town, and should be fully considered before the last measure is resorted to as it is presently proposed.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/alltime/chatham-notes.html (8843 words)

	IEEE History Center: Richmond Union Passenger Railway
		The Sprague system configuration of electric street railway components used in Richmond in 1888 became an industry prototype which was used on the great majority of all subsequent electric street railways.
		The revolution that began on the streets of Richmond was so intense and rapid that in a little over a decade animal-powered street railways (the dominant form of street railways before Richmond) had all but disappeared from the face of the earth.
		Sprague's prototype electric street railway system in 1888 may well be the greatest technological achievement in the history of the City of Richmond, Virginia.
	www.ieee.org /web/aboutus/history_center/richmond.html (1246 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Market Street Cable Railway
		The Market Street Railway survived as an independent company until 29-Sep-1944, when it was taken over by the San Francisco Municipal Railway.
		There is a railfan organization known as the Market Street Railway which promoted the new F Market Street line and organizes occasional electric rail festivals.
		The Market Street portion of the Castro line was replaced by the 8 Market streetcar line, which in turn was replaced by the 8 Market trolley bus line, which in its turn was replaced by the F Market streetcar line in 1996.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccsfmsr.html (1520 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Cable Car Lines in the Pacific Northwest
		The Seattle City Railway went bankrupt in 1893 and was sold in foreclosure to the Seattle Electric Company, which had acquired most of the city's transit lines, in 1901.
		To persuade voters to pass a measure to replace electric and cable streetcars with trolley buses, the Seattle Municipal Street Railway staged a race between a trackless trolley running under temporary wires and a streetcar on the counterbalance.
		Like Seattle's Union Trunk Line, the Tacoma Railway and Motor Company's cable line, one of the last to be built in the United States, was meant to be part of an integrated system, connecting electric lines on different levels with the downtown area.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccsea.html (4114 words)

	Ottawa/Hull Street Railway History
		The OER agreed to construct a siding from Sparks Street to the post office door and three special mail cars were to be built so that the mail bags could be slid without handling from the electric cars into the post office or the railway mail cars.
		Hull and Aylmer was made on 19 June 1896.
		At Bridge Street and along Oregon Street a special track had been laid to the river's edge where the party transferred to cribs for travel down the Chaudiere slides.
	www.railways.incanada.net /candate/street.htm (2561 words)

	The Exeter Street Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In any event, the Exeter Street Railway, begun on May 19, 1897 was finished as far as the Exeter terminal is concerned on July 3, 1897 and the terminal point at Hampton Beach -- a point on ocean boulevard about opposite Highland avenue -- was reached on July 9th of that year.
		So, it was arranged that this construction company would build and equip the Exeter Street Railway, receiving as payment such capital stock and bonds as the new utility would be authorized to issue, except that the directors of the railway were to receive ten shares of stock.
		This utility was to purchase electricity and power from the Exeter Street Railway which it would in turn resell to residents of Hampton and Exeter, a business which the Railway Company could not legally engage in under its charter.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/ourtown/trolleys2.htm (1130 words)

	Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Co, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Stone and Webster's final plan the tracks from their newly acquired Plymouth & Kingston Street Railway would come off the streets and be placed on a series of unimproved dirt roads that would eventually become Route 27.
		The Plymouth & Sandwich Street Railway was incorporated in April of 1888, and in 1914 a mile of track was added to connect Sagamore Beach to the Sagamore Depot on the other side of the canal.
		The rails crossed the water on a wooden bridge that was the predecessor of the Sagamore Bridge.
	www.p-b.com /history.htm (606 words)

	Bellows Falls & Saxtons River Street Railway
		The BFandSR Street Railway operated over 6.25 miles of track from the Boston and Maine and Rutland Railroad station to Barber park and the town of Saxtons River.
		The street railway purchased second hand, 56 pound rail from the Boston and Maine Railroad.
		From the B and M and Rutland passenger station, the track was laid South, along parallel to the passenger platform and West, up Bridge Street to the village square.
	www.vuhs.org /erails/bfsrsr (977 words)

	San Francisco Market Street Railway Operations
		These Railways have forty years yet to live, a longer time than its consolidated system has been in existence, since the longest franchise will be alive in 1965.
		When the end of the line was reached the driver lifted a pin running from the body of the car to the trucks, turned the mules in a half circle to where the rear of the car had been, and stuck the pin back in, ready for the return trip.
		In early days, in spite of the inconveniences of street railways travel and the very short distance that a passenger could ride, the fare was twenty-five cents.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/msrr.html (795 words)

	Berkshire Street Railway
		The core of the railway was chartered as the Hoosac Valley Street Railway in Massachusetts in April of 1886.
		The Pittsfield Street Railway was sold for $17,000.00 to Pittsfield Electric Street Railway, in October of 1890.
		The railway connected to the former Hoosick Railway in New York.
	vuhs.org /erails/berksh (675 words)

	Ohio River electric Railway More History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Street Railway Journal was the publication detailing the rapidly developing events in the street railway industry in the last century.
		Last year 1934 carloads were moved on its lines by a 17-ton electric locomotive with a draw-bar pull of 4000 lbs., from or two the Hocking Valley Railway Company.
		Eight of these cars are of the Brill make, six being ten-bench open summer cars mounted on No. 21-E trucks for 27-hp motors, and two closed combination passenger and baggage cars mounted on "Eureka" maximum traction trucks for 35-hp motors.
	home.comcast.net /~OhioRiverElectricRailway/MoreHistory.htm (762 words)

	Richmond Union Passenger Railway, IEEE Richmond VA
		The Richmond Union Passenger Railway streetcar jumped the tracks and ran into a marble pillar at the Saint James Hotel on 12th and Bank Streets.
		Although public transportation policies have led to the elimination of electric street railways, the Sprague system prototype continues to be used around the world as an integral part of balanced transportation systems and is embodied in the design of many modern Light Rail Transit systems.
		Electric street railway service in Richmond ended on November 25, 1949, almost 62 years after the inaugural run.
	www.ewh.ieee.org /r3/richmond/railway.htm (394 words)

	San Francisco Market Street Railway Operations
		These Railways have forty years yet to live, a longer time than its consolidated system has been in existence, since the longest franchise will be alive in 1965.
		When the end of the line was reached the driver lifted a pin running from the body of the car to the trucks, turned the mules in a half circle to where the rear of the car had been, and stuck the pin back in, ready for the return trip.
		In early days, in spite of the inconveniences of street railways travel and the very short distance that a passenger could ride, the fare was twenty-five cents.
	www.sfmuseum.com /hist1/msrr.html (795 words)

	Powell Street Cable Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Renumbered to No. 19 in 1973, it was scrapped in 1986 after being judged to be in too poor a condition to be rehabilitated.
		It was rebuilt in 1918 by the United Railroads, and renumbered from No. 533 to No. 521 by the Market Street Railway on Dec. 16, 1929.
		Built by the Ferries and Cliff House Railway (Powell Street Railway) in 1888-90 at the Washington-Mason barn.
	www.cablecarmuseum.org /car-powell.html (1902 words)

	The Boston Street Railway Association Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Railway Association, a nonprofit educational organization, was founded in 1959 to publish, exhibit, and preserve materials and information relating to all forms of local and regional mass transit.
		Elevated Railway assigned 5706 to the Clarendon Hill Carhouse in
		Street Railway digitals, looking not only at the Merrimack Valley area, but also at most of the other divisions on this once-sprawling system.
	members.aol.com /bsra5706 (1332 words)

	Canal Street: A Street Railway Spectacular - Part V
		This required moving the ornamental street light poles to a position between the inner and outer tracks, and eliminating the passenger loading area for the St. Charles cars on the outer track at St. Charles Street.
		Wide gauge double track was built on Canal Street, using the bus lanes in the inner-track position, from Baronne/Dauphine to the foot of Canal, and connected to the Riverfront line, which was converted to wide gauge.
		Note that the double-track connection from Canal Street to the car barn is located on RTA property, not in the cross street (at the left).
	www-sal.cs.uiuc.edu /~friedman/canal/Canal5.htm (10963 words)

	Amazon.com: San Francisco's Market Street Railway (CA) (Images of Rail): Books: Walt Vielbaum,Philip Hoffman,Grant ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, the name lives on as the nonprofit Market Street Railway organization, dedicated to preserving the history of this company and also to retrofitting early streetcars from across the globe, putting them back in service on Market Street.
		Authors and Market Street Railway members Walt Vielbaum, Philip Hoffman, Grant Ute, and Robert Townley have compiled this amazing collection of vintage images to tell the story of a busy urban rail line in its prime.
		From central Market Street outward, changes from additions to subtractions of San Francisco and surrounding city trolley lines are detailed, with each photo receiving not only a descriptive sentence, but explanation of why it was important, expanded or discontinued.
	www.amazon.com /Franciscos-Market-Street-Railway-Images/dp/0738529672 (1176 words)

	About Market Street Railway
		Market Street Railway members created the hugely-successful Trolley Festivals of the 1980s that resulted in the permanent return of streetcars to Market in the form of the F-line—the most popular service of its kind in all of North America.
		Through our committed advocacy, Market Street Railway is working to increase F-line service levels, and to expand historic streetcar service through the forthcoming E-Embarcadero line.
		Market Street Railway has developed a comprehensive action program to raise public awareness about the critical role that rail transit played in building our city, and the importance of attractive vintage transit to the City’s economic future.
	www.streetcar.org /msr/index.html (1033 words)

	Memphis Street Railway
		Memphis Street Railway Co. was incorporated March 28, 1895, as a consolidation of the Citizens Street Railroad, the City & Suburban Railway, Easte End Street Railway, and Memphis & Raleigh Springs Railroad.
		Memphis Street Railway Car 317 is on route " 2 Fairgrounds" at the layover point near that location in 1947.
		Memphis Street Railway started their first trolleybus route on November 8, 1931, using 9 new 40-seat trolley buses purchased from St. Louis Car Company to convert the #6-Lamar line to electric coaches.
	www.cbu.edu /~mcondren/MRP/Memphis-Street-Railway.htm (903 words)

	Railway Children
		Railway Children supports street children living alone and at risk on the streets.
		We help children all over the world, many of whom live in and around railway stations (hence our name).
		The focus of our work is stopping the abuse of children living on the streets and we now work with over 40 partner organisations, with 117 projects worldwide across Africa, Asia, South America and Europe.
	www.railwaychildren.org.uk (140 words)

	Cornwall Street Railway Light & Power Co.
		The initial route, Pitt Street, was 1.5 miles long and ran south along Pitt Street from the Grand Trunk Railway station to Water Street, turning east on Water to Brennam's Corners.
		The Second Street route ran from St. Lawrence Park, in Cornwall's east end, along Montreal Road to Marlborough Street, north on Marlborough to Second, west on Second to the Toronto Paper Company mill in the west end.
		A Cornwall Street Railway official, dressed as Father Time, rode around the Belt Line on the roof of the car.
	www.trainweb.org /elso/csr-elec.htm (2008 words)

	Canal Street: A Street Railway Spectacular - Part I
		Also like some of New Orleans’ other wide streets, part of this neutral ground eventually came to harbor street railway tracks, which were thereby considerably freed from conflict with other types of vehicles.
		There is a man in what appears to be a street railway uniform in the front center of this picture, with his hands in his pockets; he may be a car man on break between runs, or perhaps a starter/supervisor.
		At the next intersection (Carondelet/Bourbon Streets), several New Orleans City RR cars are preparing to begin their next outbound trips; one can be seen taking a crossover in front of the little shack there.
	www-faculty.cs.uiuc.edu /~friedman/canal/Canal.htm (8790 words)

	Market Street Railway \| Preserving historic transit in San Francisco
		On April 9, a pea-green PCC streetcar picked up its first paying passengers...
		MSR historian Phil Hoffman recalls his memories of past Third Street lines...
		Meet the newest PCC streetcars of the F-line fleet
	www.streetcar.org (56 words)

	Transit History of Kitchener - Cambridge, Ontario
		Incorporated 07 January 1901 (Ont.) Operated in cooperation with the associated Berlin and Waterloo from 1902 to 1907.
		Waterloo Regional council voted in June 1999 to merge CT with Kitchener Transit by 01 January 2000.
		After 1931 the accounts of the Grand River Railway and the Lake Erie and Northern Railway were consolidated by the parent Canadian Pacific Railway Company and occasionally reported under the single title Canadian Pacific Electric Lines.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/alltime/kitchener-on.html (885 words)

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