HORSECAR
Horsecar
A horsecar or horse-drawn tram is an animal-powered streetcar or tram. These early forms of public transport developed out of industrial haulage routes that had long been in existence, and from the omnibus routes that first ran on public streets in the 1820s, using the newly improved iron or steel rail or 'tramway'. These were local versions of the stagecoach lines and picked up and dropped off passengers on a regular route, without the need to be pre-hired. Horsecars on tramlines were an improvement over the omnibus as the low rolling resistance of metal wheels on iron or steel rails, allowed the animals to haul a greater load for a given effort ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Horsecar
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