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Excerpt from Electric Street Railways Even in the annals of applied electricity, where phenomenal growth has been a leading characteristic, perhaps nothing has equalled the rapidity with which the electric railroad has come into actual use as a necessity of our everyday life. In our more populous cities, not only has electric traction almost entirely displaced the street car, but, where it has paralled steam railroads, it has proved, for suburban traffic, a rival which is every day becoming more and more formidable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.