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Page 3 WELCOME ABOARD, Loyalist City Streetcars Introduction to site. What exactly is a trolley?
Page 4 Introduction to Saint John History of Saint John leading up to the era of Streetcars.
Page 5 The People's Street Railway Company The first Street Railway in New Brunswick becomes a reality.
Page 6 Lease of Operation First Lease given for the Saint John Street Railway.
Page 7 Saint John City Railway Company The re-opening of the Saint John Street Railway
ten years later.
Page 8 Start of Electrification The transformation int electric powered streetcars.
Page 9 Complete Rebuilding The Saint John Railway Company bought the existing system at auction in 1894.
Page 10 Ottawa Cars Ahearn and Soper of Ottawa built new cars for Saint John's Street Railway.
Page 11 The Turn of The Century The Saint John Street Railway was beginning a period of rebiolding - 100 years ago.
Page 12 The Expansion Years Expansion on the westside and growth in numbers.
Page 13 Saint John Street Railway Strike Streetcar workers get recognized as a union.
Page 14 One Man Cars The New Brunswick Powere Company reduced operation of streetcars to one-man operation in 1920.
Page 15 Runaway Runaways on the Saint John Street Railway.
Page 16 Modernizing and Rehabilitating the Street Railway Cars btween 1921-1930. New management. Renewal of the tracks and rebuilding of old streetcars and their two new color schemes.
Page 17 The Depression Years ''How the street railway system survived the great depression".
Page 18 World War II How the World War II affected the city's transit system.
Page 19 The End of an Era Buses replace street cars in Saint John.
Page 20 Conclusion August 7, 1948, was the end of an era in Saint John.
Page 21 Survivors A Saint John secret
Page 22 The Credits Page Information about the creators of this section, E-Mail site, and where the material was found

Horse-drwn Trolly in front of the Victorian Hotel

dThe result of the Street Car Strike of 1914

Buses take over for Street Cars




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