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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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its third rail electric system in operation Monday morning, boarding a Newlun P.oulcvard car. .-Xf-ter a run of 34 minutes through Boston and its aristocraticsuburb of Brookline, I arrived at the city line between New-ton and Boston, where connection was made with the car ofthe Commonwealth Avenue Street Railway Co., near athand. After a fast ride to West Newton, a change was madeto the line of the Wellesley & Boston Street Ry., whichcrosses the Commonwealth Avenue line without switch con-nection. This took me in a few minutes to Newton LowerFalls, where, at the other end of the bridge crossing theCharles River, connection was made with the Natick &Cochituate car to Natick. Thence over the line of theSouth Middlesex Street Railway Co. I went on to SouthFraminghani, crossing over the steam railroad track. Thusfar most of the country traversed had been urban or subur-ban in character, but after leaving South Framinghani thecar of the Iraniinghani Union Street Railway Co. carried
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STreetRattwaijL ines^team RaiiroaaL ines —-— Profiosea 6freet flai/tvoi^ Carriage Rides between these two points in the near hiture, with sufficientservice to accommodate the general riding public. Peti-tions are now pending before the Legislature of Connecti-cut asking for the right to operate a line of electric cars fromNew Haven parallel to the tracks of the New York, NewHaven & Hartford, to Wallingford, Conn. Should thesepetitions be granted, and the line built, there will be a con-tinuous electric line from Meriden to Stamford, a distance of65 miles, all connected. From Wallingford to Mount Car-mel, Conn., is a break of about four miles, and in spite of thefact that this is the shortest gap in the whole line, it willprobably be the last one filled, as the country traversed isone which would afford almost nothing in tiie way of reve-nue from local traffic. The last of the missing links is thatbetween Stamford and New Rochelle, Conn,, but an electricrailway covering the 17

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