Also, this cable car book is loaded with photos of the major cities in the 1880-90s. A cable car system was engineered and built(private $$) and operating in a year or two, not years like today. They had accidents but no details on those. It sure beat walking: Pgh had three relatively short lines from the downtown area to Oakland and East Liberty areas. It took 1 hr:45 mins to walk it and 30 mins to ride in a cable car about the same today. The waste from the horses-solid and liquid made the streets too slippery for horses to pull except unpaved surfaces or cobble stone !! A lot they never told us. TRRR-if you want to look and read this book I could send it to you when I am finished. Let me know.
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