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Interurban and streetcar railways flourished in Syracuse, New York until the automobile, airplane and bus took their place. The trolley or streetcar served travel within the city limits of Syracuse as early as 1859. In the beginning they were either horse-drawn or fueled by steam and by the end of the 19th century they were electric driven. The city was one of the first in the United States to adopt electricity as a transportation motive power.〔 Interurban railways had rights-of-way for higher speed traffic and linked Syracuse with the countryside. They allowed people who lived in the suburbs and farming communities to work in Syracuse. The era was short-lived, lasting just 40 years. The first interurban line began operation in the city in 1891 with services to Oneida and the last line completed to Oswego in 1911. On July 1, 1931, the last big traction interurban car pulled out of the ''Electric Railway Terminal'' in Clinton Square for its final trip to Rochester, away. Between 1930 and 1932 the local interurban went out of business and the era of streetcar railway was over.〔 ==History== The city obtained its first horse-drawn street railway in 1860 called People's Railroad. In 1889, the electric trolley began to replace the horse cars, with the last horse car retired on October 1, 1900, on the Green Street line.〔 The electric trolley became the "mainstay of local transit" in Syracuse until the early 1940s.〔 The city operated its first electric car in 1889 over the lines of the Third Ward Railway Company to Solvay.〔 In 1894, the Tracy Street power house was under construction and completed in 1895 at a cost of $200,000. Up until this time, many rails had to find their own source of electricity. The Syracuse and East Side lines had a complete power house at the east end of the village of East Syracuse.〔 Growth in the city wards and suburbs followed the early trolley lines. The southern part of the city was built up for miles while vacant lots closer to the center of the city "went begging for lot buyers" because the South Salina street line was the first to give frequent service. University Hill, the eastern part of the city and southwestern sections "all woke to life as they felt the pulsing of these iron arteries." The street railroad as a real builder of the city did not begin until the later years, "when the policy of laying tracks into unoccupied territory and growing up with the section was adopted by the Rapid Transit Company."〔 By 1889, there were twelve separate and distinct lines of railway which were the nucleus of the "single system" in place by 1908. The lines included the Central City, the Syracuse and Geddes, Syracuse and Onondaga, Genessee and Water Street, Fifth Ward, Syracuse and Oakwood, Seventh Ward, Woodlawn and Butternut Street, Burnet Street, Third Ward and the People's Railroad.〔 Between 1899 and 1917, a number of interurban lines came under the control of the Beebe Syndicate, an affiliation of companies with shared management founded by banker Clifford D. Beebe. The interurban ran longer distances between upstate New York cities and included Syracuse, Watertown and St. Lawrence River Railroad and Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Railroad.〔 Patronage on the interurban and streetcar lines began to decline in the 1920s, due to more modern forms of transportation such as automobiles, buses and airplanes. Additionally, paved roads reduced the need for train tracks. After the stock market crash in the late 1920s, interurban routes were abandoned along with many unprofitable city and suburban routes. By 2010, public transit in the Syracuse area had been in existence for 150 years. The following list of local interurban rail, streetcar and trolley companies is in chronological order: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Interurban and streetcar railways in Syracuse, New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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