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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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sense be opened up until the Union system encircles andpierces it. Those of us who have for some years been busydeveloping that system look back on a period of ceaselessactivity, but the contemplation of what must still be doneto round out existing lines and build the new routes doesnot reveal much chance to rest and be thankful. On thecontrary, it would be difficult to exaggerate the magnitudeof the task. The greater lies before. The old horse railroad out of which the great UnionRailway system has grown dates back to the early sixties,and was very much of the character of that which on thefringe of our territory still transports the weary fisher-man with his catch at Bartow. The corporation charteredas the Harlem Bridge, Morrisania & Fordham RailroadCompany established four branches, with terminals atI^ordham, West Farms, Westchester Avenue and the);)ronx, and Port Morris. The North Third Avenue &!leetwo( k1 1ark Railway Company also had a precarious existence about the same
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TROLLEY TRIPPERS FISHING ON THH SOUND KILLS time, and the two werebrought together in 1892,jusi at the beginning of themodern trolley regime, adate,moreover, from whichit would also be but fair toreckon the great expansionof the North Side. Itseems barely credible thatwhere these two companiesat the time of consolidationran twenty horse cars ofthe primitive Bartow type,we now operate close upon400 electrics, and keepthem busy all the time. Itis needless to say that allthe original investmentsand equipments at oncewent by the l)oard, and v/e started out not merelyt(_> jjut in electric motive power, but to construct the newlines im))eratively needed. Since 1892, breaking awayfrom its 1 luckleberry name and period, the Union Com-))any has thus constructed around the skeleton of its orig-inal system the following lines: 138th Street, across Madison Avenue Bridge to 135thStreet, to Eighth Avenue. 150th Street, from Prospect Avenue to the Bronx River.i6ist Street, from Third Avenueto Hig

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