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- "The Haddon Car," 1859 - Horse-drawn streetcars provided a convenient and affordable way to get around a growing city. These streetcars traveled the main urban thoroughfares and took passengers to their workplaces, local shops and businesses, parks and other destinations. Alexander Easton designed the "Haddon Car" for the Camden Haddonfield Passenger Railway in New Jersey. He later helped organize the Toronto (Canada) Street Railway in 1861.
- 1859
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"The Haddon Car," 1859
Horse-drawn streetcars provided a convenient and affordable way to get around a growing city. These streetcars traveled the main urban thoroughfares and took passengers to their workplaces, local shops and businesses, parks and other destinations. Alexander Easton designed the "Haddon Car" for the Camden Haddonfield Passenger Railway in New Jersey. He later helped organize the Toronto (Canada) Street Railway in 1861.