Michigan historical collections . FIRST ELECTRIC CAR IN MAP OF INTKRURBAN LINES IN 190G. BEGINNINGS OF INTERURBANS. 265 1886. We have secured a picture of this pioneer electric car, which wagrun nearly sixty years after the first horse car carried granite at Quincy,Mass., for Bunker Hill monument on the first railway, in 1827. Just before the fourth of July, 1895, an electric road was opened toMt. Clemens from Detroit. It inaugurated the large high-speed car,with heavy double trucks, and I believe it was the first in the countryto do this. The road, it is said, was built hurriedly a
Michigan historical collections . FIRST ELECTRIC CAR IN MAP OF INTKRURBAN LINES IN 190G. BEGINNINGS OF INTERURBANS. 265 1886. We have secured a picture of this pioneer electric car, which wagrun nearly sixty years after the first horse car carried granite at Quincy,Mass., for Bunker Hill monument on the first railway, in 1827. Just before the fourth of July, 1895, an electric road was opened toMt. Clemens from Detroit. It inaugurated the large high-speed car,with heavy double trucks, and I believe it was the first in the countryto do this. The road, it is said, was built hurriedly and cheaply, simplyto sell to investors, but its popularity became at once so great that itbecame from the start a paying investment. Then it had to be entirelyrebuilt with larger rails, heavier engines, larger feeders and trolleywires, and cars, all the old equipment having to be thrown away beforeit was worn smooth. It was too good a thing to sell. Even at thattime, electric power could not be transmitted far, and twenty miles wasregarded as the ultima thule of
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