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Bay Shore Terminal Street Railway, 1907
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     As of 1907, according to its entry in the American Street Railway Investments, 1907 edition (p.412), the Bay Shore [Terminal] company had 13 motor cars operating along 15 miles of electric track.  By that time, the line was a double-track; so its actual length from the city to the bay was about 7½ miles.  (Although the air-line distance would have been less than that, the additional mileage was probably also created by its meandering through various streets within sub-divisions along the way.) See Figure ZZZ, showing the double-track line running along Indian Poll Road near Forest Lawn Cemetery.  (A plat of the Bay Shore Terminal Company is contained in Norfolk County Deed Book 246, p.550.)

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