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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by macguy</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <br />Does anyone know what horsecar drivers were called? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Most of the time they were refered to as "Teamsters" which of course is where the name for the teamsters union came from. <br /> <br />And they were called Teamsters because they drove a team of horses. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />And driving that <b>team</b> of horse<b><u>s</u></b> was a pretty tough job if the car only had one horse![(-D][(-D][(-D]
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