“It was in the year 1892 that the first trolley cars began to operate throughout San Leandro from Oakland to Hayward, known as the Oakland-San Leandro and Hayward Electric Railway. It consisted of a one line track with wooden posts and cast iron extensions projecting out to hold the trolley wire. A year or two later, one bright sunny day, a gang of construction workers began to tear up our main street. On inquiry, it was learned that they were about to install a double track system through town. This the citizenry did not desire, claiming the street too narrow for a two-track line. Quite a crowd gathered ordering the construction crew to cease work. This they refused to do, and a battle took place right there – even throwing a rope over one of the trolley posts with the intention of a lynching party. The construction boss was put in the old town jail and work stopped through injunction proceedings. A watch was kept on the job night and day, for it was u
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