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99:. Of the four, it was generally on the smaller size, with a passenger count of 4.3 million in 1869 and 6.1 million a decade later.
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Drawing of a South Boston
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80:. In 1868 the company changed its name to the South Boston Railroad.
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599:. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London: Harvard University Press.
554:"Their Side of the Case - South Boston Directors Make a Statement"
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Fifty Years of Unified Transportation in Metropolitan Boston
474:"Horse Railroad Men - They Submit Their List of Grievances"
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Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners (1888).
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Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners (1883).
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Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners (1880).
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Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners (1878).
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Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners (1873).
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Second Annual Report of the Public Service Commission
494:"Tied Up - The South Boston Street Railroad Disabled"
574:"It Is Ended - South Boston Men Vote the Strike Off"
468:(Act Chap. 0444). Massachusetts General Court. 1854.
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514:"It Means War - Directors and Employes Grimly Firm"
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425:Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners 1878
413:Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners 1873
325:Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners 1880
726:. Vol. 2. Boston: Wright & Potter. 1915.
619:. Boston: Boston Elevated Railway Company. 1938.
713:The Street Railway System of Metropolitan Boston
734:History of South Boston (Its Past and Present)
731:Toomey, John J.; Rankin, Edward P. B. (1901).
534:"First Move - South Boston Cars Go the Rounds"
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815:Defunct Massachusetts railroads
683:. Boston: Rand, Avery & Co.
672:. Boston: Rand, Avery & Co.
789:. Boston: Wright & Potter.
775:. Boston: Wright & Potter.
761:. Boston: Wright & Potter.
716:. New York: McGraw Publishing.
705:. Boston: Wright & Potter.
694:. Boston: Wright & Potter.
661:. Boston: Wright & Potter.
377:Public Service Commission 1915
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805:Streetcars in the Boston area
737:. Boston: Toomey and Rankin.
634:Hager, Louis P., ed. (1892).
593:Cheape, Charles W. (1980).
261:1. For eleven months only.
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78:Dorchester Avenue Railroad
357:Boston Sunday Globe 1887e
64:Originally formed as the
32:company that operated in
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353:Boston Daily Globe 1887d
349:Boston Daily Globe 1887c
345:Boston Daily Globe 1887b
341:Boston Daily Globe 1887a
337:Toomey & Rankin 1901
107:West End Street Railway
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26:South Boston Railroad
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558:Boston Sunday Globe
540:. February 12, 1887
578:Boston Daily Globe
538:Boston Daily Globe
520:. February 8, 1887
518:Boston Daily Globe
500:. February 7, 1887
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480:. February 3, 1887
478:Boston Daily Globe
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401:Warner 1868
389:Warner 1863
321:Warner 1870
277:Cheape 1980
250:11,085,052
123:Track miles
799:Categories
458:References
289:Hager 1892
253:$ 539,440
247:1,606,057
234:$ 440,215
231:9,072,394
228:1,332,348
215:$ 281,765
212:5,548,609
196:$ 290,789
193:5,509,457
177:$ 186,242
174:3,358,867
155:1,412,034
131:Passengers
128:Miles run
113:Statistics
70:City Point
158:$ 68,787
138:receipts
136:Passenger
125:operated
97:Middlesex
93:Cambridge
783:(1870).
769:(1868).
755:(1863).
209:905,039
190:696,422
171:468,857
152:251,022
133:carried
46:downtown
38:horsecar
52:History
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244:19.66
225:14.33
206:10.36
146:1862
95:, and
28:was a
265:Notes
241:1887
222:1882
203:1877
187:7.68
184:1872
168:6.85
165:1867
149:4.29
141:Ref.
89:Union
739:ISBN
642:ISBN
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