Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Keywords: Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Company by Frank J. Sprague
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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THE FIRST SPRAGUE ROAD IN NEW ENGLAND, AT THE BOSTON SUGAR REFINERY Boston, in 1888, but have gone the ultimate way of all goodmotors. Like the others who had attempted work on the Manhattan, Iwas evidently ahead of the times, although I was not sufficientlydiscouraged but that I immediately began the construction, onthe suggestion of J. II. Vail, of a locomotive car to be equippedwith four 75-hp motors, each with double armatures. But theelevated field offering little of promise, I soon turned my atten-tion to 1 ram way work, and began the development of the type EARLY SPRAGUE ROAD AT SALEM, MASS. first steamboat on the Hudson. Small boys yelled dynamite andrats, and made similar appreciative remarks until they werehoarse. Newly appointed policemen debated arresting it, but wentno further. The car horses which were met on the other trackkicked without exception, as was natural, over an invention whichthreatens to relegate them to a sausage factory. In the calendar of the electric rai

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