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You're helping with this event: August 1, 1907, Beloit's first public streetcars officially begin operations on the East loop using cars temporarily loaned from Rockford, Illinois, following an opening ceremony where company president Joel B. Dow and the mayor drove ceremonial gold and silver spikes into the first rail.