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 one work car. Power station equipment included three boilers, one 350 horsepower steam engine and three direct current generators. By 1907, five years later, five more open cars had been added to the roster

The 1907 census noted that of the 14 cars, six were equipped with one motor and eight had two motors.. It also notes that power was being purchased from the Norwich & Westerly Railway at this time. The company was operating 6.25 route miles, plus .13 mile of sidings and turnouts, for a single track equivalent of 6.38 miles.

The additional trackage was a spur up Broad Street, from Dixon House Square past the library, the short branch being used by the cars of the Norwich & Westerly as a terminal.

Pawcatuck Valley Street Railway C0.

Roster of Equipment

OPEN CARS of Pawcatuck Valley Street Railway are shown ready to leave Franklin Square, Norwich, with Salvation Army group for Watch Hill, July 4, l9ll.

BUILDER'S PHOTO of one of the l5-bench opens built by Stephenson for the Pawtucker Valley Street Railway Company.—[From collection of Charles F. Munger.