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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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automobile has placed steam-propelled vehicles in a much moreadvantageous position for competingwith electricity than they were duringthe period of previous attempts tooperate them on street railways, andthe Yucatan Railway is taking a step which will be carefullyfollowed by railroad men. The use of steam for the propulsion of street cars is nonovelty. The dummy, with and without passenger compart-ments, was a familiar sight in many cities ten years ago, butthe new motor car is an entirely different class of rolling stockfrom the now practically defunct dummy. The rapid andextensive development of steam-driven automobiles has re-sulted in greatly increasing the practicability of small boilers,engines, etc., for this service, and the successful operation ofthese vehicles has proved that, with the present facilities, the January io, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 87 problem of constructing a self-contained street car has lostmuch of its difficulty. How such a motor car will stand actual
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duce between each two of these Lynn cars a through carfrom Salem, running the Salem cars also on fifteen-minuteheadway, and giving a car between CentralSquare, Lynn, where the companys headquar-ters are located, and Scollay Square, Boston,every seven minutes and a half. *^ EAST BOSTON TUNNEL IMPROVEMENT PLAN SHOWING RESERVOIRS, ENGINE, ETC. operation under average service conditions remains, of course,to be determined. MORE SUBURBAN CARS TO BE OPERATED IN BOSTON In addition to the plan of the Newton & Boston Street Rail-way Company to operate a through service between Walthamand the Park Street subway station, in Boston, operating inthe latter city over the lines of the Boston Elevated RailwayCompany, the company plans to operate the cars of the Com-monwealth Avenue Street Railway Company, which it controls,into Boston. The Commonwealth Avenue Street RailwayCompany at present operates only between Norumbega Park,in the Auburndale district of Newton, and Lake Street, on theboulevar

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