The Electric Streetcars

The electic streetcar was popular amoung the people in cities in the united states after 1880 when an enginer invented a cable that could run from wire overhead to a streetcar’s electric engine. Because there was this overhead wire, it wasn’t necessary to have dangerous electric rail running along the street a ground level, and this was a very important feature of the streetcar in those cities the used them.

During the next 20 or 30 years or so, from 1880 onwords, the electric streetcar was very popular with passengers in big cities all over the USA. It was also profitable for the companies. However, early in the next century, automobile manufacturers and other bussines interests made an effort to get rid off all the streetcars in the street of big cities and replace them with buses and cars. Eventually the situation was that all the streetcars disappeared, and cars completely took over all the city street.