Template:Did you know nominations/Worcester Consolidated Street Railway

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The result was: promoted by History6042 talk 19:02, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Worcester Consolidated Street Railway

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• ... that officials of the Worcester Bus Company blamed television for declining ridership?

• Source: Transcript-Telegram, March 18, 1952

• • ALT1: ... that the only remaining streetcars from the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway are at an art museum in Brazil? Source: Source for them being the only remaining streetcars: Anderson, Edward A. (July–August 2016). "Worcester Trolleys Remembered Again!". Rollsign. Vol. 53, no. 7/8. Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 3–14. "No former American trolley car from Porto Allegre was ever repatriated back to the United States. ... In 2007 a posting on the internet showed the body shell of one former Worcester car was still in stationary use as part of a traffic police station. ... No trolley cars of any type from Worcester were preserved intact anywhere in North America." Source for them being at the museum: Jornal do Comercio, September 24, 2020
  • ALT2: ... that the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway was formed from 17 formerly independent companies? Source: The street railway in Massachusetts : the rise and decline of an industry
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thunder (Seventeen song)
  • Comment: Second QPQ is Template:Did you know nominations/Phaéton (Saint-Saëns)

Improved to Good Article status by Pi.1415926535 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 63 past nominations.

Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:16, 28 May 2025 (UTC).

• General: Article is new enough and long enough
  New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good work! AGF for the Rollsign offline source. Uriahheep228 (talk) 15:08, 28 May 2025 (UTC)