Street Cars of Boston Vol 2 Open Horse and Electric Cars by O.R. Cummings
Street Cars of Boston Vol 2 Open Horse and Electric Cars by O.R. Cummings
Soft Cover stapled
Copyright 1974
By O.R. Cummings
60 pages
This second volume on Boston's Streetcars covers the open horse and electric cars owned by the West End Street Railway and the Boston Elevated Railway from 1887 through 1922. As in the previous volume, the information presented was drawn almost entirely from official sources and is as complete and accurate as available records permit. Unfortunately, many of these records lack adequate details and efforts to obtain additional authoritative data have been unsuccessful.
The earliest open horsecar roster located was that for April 1893 while the earliest roster of open electrics is that contained in the West End inventory of 30 September 1897. However,all open horse and electric cars purchased or built in the fiscal years 1889 through 1901 can be identified by order, type, number and builder and sales of open horse and electric cars to other transit properties, second-hand dealers and street railway promoters are listed from April 1891 through September 1918.
CONTENTS
Introduction 4
1. Open horsecars 5
2. Seven-bench open cars - 1889-1915 11
3. Eight-bench open cars - 1890-1919 14
4. Nine-bench open cars - 1893-1922 20
Initial Assignment of 9-bench cars31
5. Ten-bench open cars - 1890-191932
6. Twelve-bench open cars - 1899-192236
Roster of open horsecars - April 189342
Horsecars acquired - August 1888 to
September 188945
Roster of open electric cars - 1889-190046
Open car purchases - 1888-1900 54
Open car assignments - Summer 191155
Closed and open car sales 58
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