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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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oftrack contained within but five counties, and parallelingand cross connecting with the closely-woven network ofsteam railroad lines contained in the same area—all givingtransportation facilities to the people of this favored sec-tion unequaled in the world—has been developed in threedifferent stages. In the first stage, the half dozen independent horse rail-way properties in Boston and the immediate suburbs were EfitT Of fe- lines radiating from the city proper. These lines weregenerally profitable almost from the first, and later on be-came quite distinctly so, as a rule, though a rule not with-out exceptions. The increase of transportation facilitiesbrought about a movement of the population from thecity and the near-by suburbs to the remoter ones, build-ings went up rapidly, and while there was little directbooming of real estate, such as is found in newer and lessconservative districts, there was a substantial and veryheavy growth of population and increase of values, which
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CAR HOUSE, TRANSFORMER STATION AND WAITING ROOM OF THE NORFOLK WESTERN STREET RAILWAY reduced by consolidation to two, electricity was adopted,and, thus possessed of greater competitive power in thesuburban transportation field, the lines of the metropolitansystem were pushed into an outer fringe of suburbs, still,however, contained within a radius of about 10 miles of thecentral business district. The mileage of this consolidated metropolitan systemwas then (1890) larger than that of any other street rail-way property in the world. The money requirements forreconstruction and electrical equipment were so heavy, theorganization was so complex, and the engineering andoperation problems were so absorbing that the manage-ment had little time or disposition to add to its burdens byreaching out still further into the surrounding country,although the beautiful clusters of cities and towns, north,west and south, must have offered great temptations, inspite of the more or less uncertainty in

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