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Loyalist City Streetcars by Fred Angus Street Ry transit St John New Brunswick 2
Loyalist City Streetcars by Fred Angus The story of street railway transit in Saint John, New Brunswick
Hard Cover with dust jacket
82 pages
Copyright 1979
CONTENTS
Foreword1
I Introduction to Saint John4
IIThe People's Street Railway7
IIISaint John City Railway Company15
IVThe Start of Electrification20
VComplete Rebuilding24
VITurn of the Century31
VIIYears of Expansion35
VIIIThe Coming of One-Man Cars 46
IXModernization and Rehabilitation51
XDepression, Decline and War58
XIEnd of the Trams65
XIIConclusion72
Roster I: Work Cars77
Roster II: Passenger Cars78
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
The City of Saint John is the commercial metropolis of Canada's maritime province of New Brunswick. It possesses an excellent harbour making it one of Canada's foremost winter ports.
For nearly 80 years the city was served by streetcars, originally horse drawn and later powered by electricity. The history of the various companies which ran the streetcars in Saint John is one of considerable interest, full of ambitious schemes, disappointments, frustrations, reorganizations, modernizations, plus innumerable anecdotes, and legends.
Except for the period 1876 to 1887, the streetcars ran from 1869 to 1948. Over the years the number of cars run was surprisingly large in relation to the size of the system.
By the time the last trams gave way to buses most North American systems of comparable size had long since been abandoned, and the single-truck hand-braked cars were relics of a bygone era.
In Loyalist City Streetcars, author Fred Angus captures the flavour of Canada's port city and tells the story of New Brunswick's first street railway.
You'll read about the bottleneck created by the original bridge over famous Reversing Falls, with its inability to carry the weight of electric cars causing the division of the street railway into two physically-separate sections.
See the streetcars meet steamboats at Indiantown, for the journey into town to bypass the falls. Hear how the horse gave way to electricity in 1893. Say "Thanks", along with all Saint John riders and residents, for the cars' hand-brakes which - with operator skill and much good luck - worked well enough in 54 years of electric operation, to avoid any serious runaway streetcars down the city's treacherous hills.
Read about the wild winter snows grinding the system to a halt. See cars built by Ahearn & Soper, Montreal Street Railway, the Ottawa Car Company, Tillsonburg Electric Car Company, and many more.
Study the damage inflicted to turned-over cars during the labour strife of 1914, and how the army was called out to quell the uprising.
Double-ended cars with hand-brakes continued right to the end of service, and you'll see photos of them on the "wrong side" of the street until 1922, when the rules of the road moved to "operate on the right".
Only now can these "clandestine" photos be shown!
You'll share the "undercover" photographs of the late Robert R. Brown, taken during World War II when Saint John's strategic position as an important wartime seaport caused unauthorized photography of all means of transportation to be forbidden. You'll see absolutely unique photos of streetcars during wartime, through unusual camouflaging of camera and photographer.
Read about the last-gasp efforts of the New Brunswick Power Company to continue operations in 1948, even after the City of Saint John had awarded the franchise for all transportation rights to the new SMT bus system. For a while, the two systems operated, competing with each other at car and bus stops to get the riders aboard!
"Loyalist City Streetcars" had three system maps, plus diagrams, tickets, and transfers to complement the excellent photographs. Enjoy a voyage back into the 1800s and the first half of the twentieth century. Take a trip to Canada's Loyalist City, and savour Saint John's fascinating four-wheelers.
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