Identifier: electricrailwayr17amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ace cars from Charlestown,East Cambridge and outlying points were brought beneath thesurface at Haymarket square and looped around a city blockfrom Adams square to Scollay square, where they were givena terminal. Surface car passengers wishing to go from the Park street terminal of south and west bound cars to theScollay square terminal of north and east bound cars wereenabled to so do without the payment of an additional fareby use of the elevated trains running through the Tremontstreet subway. Elevated Roads.The elevated train operation was threefold. The firstoperation consisted of the trains sent from the Sullivan squareterminal, which took the Tremont street subway and Wash-ington street elevated cars through to the Dudley street termi-nal, returning by the same route. The second operation was oftrains starting from Sullivan square, taking the Atlantic ave-nue line along the water front and returning to Sullivansquare by the way of the Tremont street subway, with a Hest Med ford
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