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Trolleys used to have a lot less horsepower

One-horse carriage in Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene involving a one-HP trolley. See it larger.

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I appreciate the joke, but haven't we determined that the actual power of a horse is more than 1 HP? I believe I've read it can be up to 7.

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1 hp?

Look VERY CLOSELY at the picture. Someone not only want people to play they want them to Believe their reporting or play is cute.

I do think it was safer to ride or be around at that era !

So, parody on !

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Just outside of Egleston, which is pretty clear from all the writing on the trolley. Also, Richard Heath gives the answer in his long post on the trolley system: http://www.jphs.org/locales/2005/9/30/egleston-square-by-richard-heath.html

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Building is still there (if I'm correct).

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Thanks for playing, folks! This horsecar is on Washington Street at School Street. The date is circa 1886-1887

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The same Washington Street intersects at least two different School Streets, one in Jamaica Plain (mentioned by another commenter) and another in downtown Boston. I assume you mean the first one?

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Do you really think there has been a barn at the corner of Washington and School Streets downtown since anytime after 1712?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Corner_Bookstore

Besides, Washington Street downtown has never been that wide.

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Theirs may have had less, but ours have fewer. Tote: exactly even.

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