Since the average life of horses and horsecars is five to eight years (The
Street Railway Journal 1888a, p.
Relatively little work has been done on
street railway strikes in North America and still less has focused on these strikes as they relate to the city and consciousness formation.
Thus, the authors claim that horse-drawn
street railway "stimulated the evolution of the modern American city ...
Among them was an Irish Catholic immigrant, Senator Frank Smith, who had amassed a fortune in wholesaling, banking, railways, and shipping, in addition to ownership of the Toronto
Street Railway. Although he employed mostly Irish Catholics, they, like the other workers in the Toronto
Street Railway, worked fourteen hours or longer, six days a week, for a weekly salary of $8.00 to $9.00.
A bus was also set on fire at Lake
Street railway crossing in the town.
Chicago has a rich history of
street railway development and it was the
street railways that helped greatly expand and develop the city in the years between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century.
Likewise, a taxpayer may adjust the NOL amount incurred in a closed tax year for purposes of determining the correct NOL amount available for carrying forward into an open tax year (Springfield
Street Railway Co., 312 F2d 754 (Ct.
The municipality operated its own
street railway, electric lights, hydroelectric power station, water and sewerage works and a telephone exchange.
Dating mainly from the 1940s, the cars have been restored by Muni, the engineering firm Morrison-Knudsen, and volunteers from the nonprofit Market
Street Railway Company.
One of the principal causes of blight has been the old Morrison
Street railway goods yards to the south, which are now unused and have for many years been covered with landfill topped by a car park.
A freight train broke down at Cardiff Queen
Street railway station, causing services to be stopped.