New York and Harlem Railroad

The New York and Harlem Railroad was an American railroad company, in the city of New York City opened its first tram line in the world in 1832.

History

The first train ran a track pulled by mules cars across Manhattan. As the mules but turned out to be unprofitable quickly, put it a steam locomotive. When it came to a major accident with one dead and twenty injured in Union Square, the angry mob tore out of there the tracks and forced the company to cease steam operation. As horses were used for the further operation.

In 1863 the company was taken over by the railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt. 1873 presented to the cable car to the operation, as today in San Francisco to. Since it is the horses, as opposed to the mules, not teach to leave their feces in certain places, began in 1893 to switch the tracks to electric operation. However, since only underground power rails were allowed in New York, the last horse-drawn trams stopped due to the high switching costs until 1915.

In 1936 the then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was stuck in one of his frequent trips to the fire department in Brooklyn shortly after a train stuck in a narrow street, he vowed to make the City of New York " tram- free". 1956 drove over the George Washington Bridge from the last tram of Jersey City.