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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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a, is alsointerested in the company. The Camden & Trenton Railway Company was the first out-side corporation to file maps for streets in this city, and anentire local system was planned. The New Jersey & Penn-sylvania Traction Company next secured a charter and filedmaps covering an elaborate local system. The Trenton & NewBrunswick Railroad Company is at the city line, the Philadel-phia, Bristol & Trenton Street Railway is just across the river,and the Delaware Valley Traction has covered the suburbanexits, so that it may be safely said that Trenton is in a fair wayto be well supplied with electric railways. January 31, 1903. ; STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. A PECULIAR ACCIDENT IN MASSACHUSETTS One of the most remarkable accidents which has beenchronicled in these pages for some time occurred near Lee,Mass., last week. About 11 oclock at night, on Monday, Jan.19, one of the large double-truck cars of the Berkshire StreetRailway Company was returning empty from Stockbridge to
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TROLLEY ACCIDENT AT LEE, MASS. Pittsfield at a high rate of speed. In crossing the bridge overthe Housatonic River the rear truck of the car jumped thetrack and cleared the guard rail, throwing the rear end of thecar through the side truss of the bridge. The truck left therails just before reaching the span, the fronttruck being well onto the bridge, and the carstruck the end of the l.)ridge truss with suchforce that the bridge was completely wrecked,as seen in the two accompanying engravings,which were made from photographs taken onthe morning after the accident. They showthe appearance of the car and bridge fromboth ends. The Berkshire Street Railway Company,which was opened last sunuiier. operateslargely over its own right of way and main-tains an exceedingly high-speed schedule.The car was running at the ordinary cross-country speed as it approached the bridge.Thv bridge, which is 100 ft. in length, issituated just beyond a curve, and it is thecustom to slacken speed greatly as t

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