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)
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Worcester Consolidated Street Railway
- ... that officials of the Worcester Bus Company blamed television for declining ridership?
- 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
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| QPQ: Done. |