History of trams

The history of trams, streetcars, or trolleys began in the early nineteenth century. It can be divided up into several discrete periods defined by the principal means of motive power used.^[2] Eventually the so-called US "street railways" were deemed advantageous auxiliaries of the new elevated and/or tunneled metropolitan steam railways.^[3]^[4]

^ "The Cable Car Home Page – Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey". cable-car-guy.com. Retrieved 24 December 2024. Third Avenue Railroad cars run between the elevated structures through the Bowery.
^ Haupt, Herman (1893). Street railway motors. H.C. Baird & Company. The subjects here considered are horse railroads steam motors cable traction electric roads com pressed air motors ammonia motors hot water motors gas motors and carbonic acid motors
^ The Technologist: Especially Devoted to Engineering, Manufacturing and Building. Industrial publishing Company. 1870. p. 48. [S]treet railways can not compete with Metropolitan steam railways Street railways will certainly be able to effect certain advantages can not be attained by Metropolitan railways but where such judiciously introduced the horse railways become at once auxiliaries This condition of the subject we believe is not fully comprehended their introduction into London For the absence of any means of street transit in London except by stages called there omnibuses or hacks cabs and other vehicular and limited means on the introduction of the splendid system of Metropolitan railways both tunnel and overhead Whereas in New York the apparent comprehensiveness of the street railway system demand for a through steam track is unceasing and universal Albany will this session be the battle ground upon which may prob ably rest the decision for an underground railroad under Broadway So great is the popular and monetary influence brought to bear the New York Arcade Railway that its speedy introduction may be looked for.
^ "Proposed 'arcade railway' below Broadway would aid 1860s gridlock | 6sqft".

[1] "The Cable Car Home Page – Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey". cable-car-guy.com. Retrieved 24 December 2024. Third Avenue Railroad cars run between the elevated structures through the Bowery.

[2] Haupt, Herman (1893). Street railway motors. H.C. Baird & Company. The subjects here considered are horse railroads steam motors cable traction electric roads com pressed air motors ammonia motors hot water motors gas motors and carbonic acid motors

[3] The Technologist: Especially Devoted to Engineering, Manufacturing and Building. Industrial publishing Company. 1870. p. 48. [S]treet railways can not compete with Metropolitan steam railways Street railways will certainly be able to effect certain advantages can not be attained by Metropolitan railways but where such judiciously introduced the horse railways become at once auxiliaries This condition of the subject we believe is not fully comprehended their introduction into London For the absence of any means of street transit in London except by stages called there omnibuses or hacks cabs and other vehicular and limited means on the introduction of the splendid system of Metropolitan railways both tunnel and overhead Whereas in New York the apparent comprehensiveness of the street railway system demand for a through steam track is unceasing and universal Albany will this session be the battle ground upon which may prob ably rest the decision for an underground railroad under Broadway So great is the popular and monetary influence brought to bear the New York Arcade Railway that its speedy introduction may be looked for.

[4] "Proposed 'arcade railway' below Broadway would aid 1860s gridlock | 6sqft".

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History of trams

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