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Title: American railway transportation
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Emory R. (Emory Richard), 1864-1950
Subjects: Railroads Railroads and state
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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nical traction freed society from the nar-row limitations which muscular force placed upon humandevelopment, and gave man possession of an agency capa-ble of indefinite improvement. The construction of tramways for cars drawn byhorses was a comparatively simple task, and, from 1801on, tramway companies were frequently chartered inEngland. The tracks were used mainly for hauling min-erals. The Quincy tramway, the first road of its kindin America—built in Massachusetts in 1826 and some-times wrongly called the first railroad in America—wasused to transport the building-stone of which BunkerHill monument was erected. It was only three miles inlength, and extended from the Quincy quarries to a wharfon the Neponset River, l^ear the quarry there was asteep incline, up and down v/hich the cars were handledby a stationary engine; for the remainder of the distancehorses were used. The rails used on the tramways and on most of theearly railroads of America consisted of wooden beams ^\ &
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20 AMERICAN RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION with a strap of iron nailed to the upper surface, the railsbeing very similar to those most frequently used forstreet-railways until horse-cars were displaced by theheavier electric cars run at a higher rate of speed.

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