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Through the courtesy of the Steel Street Railway Company of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, who presented the Museum with 14 sections of street rails and 3 sets of joint fixtures, it has become the possessor of a nucleus of a collection, which it is to be hoped may soon be expanded until it shall illustrate the history of the street railway - preeminently an American invention in the beginning, and which has since been carried to every part of the globe. It is highly important that the history of a system, which has had so much to do with the growth of every American city should be preserved.

It is to be desired that other friends of the Museum will add to this nucleus by collecting early forms of street rails and track appliances.