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Ewing Yard with some SD-400 and SD-460 cars. Metro Transit, the public transit operator in the Greater St. Louis area, operates two rail yards for the MetroLink light rail system, four bus depots for MetroBus and Metro Call-A-Ride services, and one streetcar barn for the Loop Trolley.
The first electric streetcar operated in Kansas City on September 6, 1889. [7] By 1908, all but one of Kansas City's streetcar routes had been converted to electricity. [1] When the Kansas City Public Service Company (KCPS) was created in 1925, it inherited over 700 streetcars that had been owned and operated by private companies. [5]
The Kansas City Public Service Company is the formerly most well known name for a set of defunct public transit operators in Kansas City, Missouri, [1] until being sold to the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority in 1969. Streetcars in Kansas City began as horsecar operations in 1869, followed by cable cars and electrification after the ...
♦ Sioux City ― South Sioux City (Neb.) Electric Interurban 1890s April 15, 1937 Tama & Toledo Railway [63]: 39–40 Tama ― Toledo: Electric Interurban July 4, 1894 June 25, 1925 Waterloo Street Railway [63]: 187 Waterloo: Horse 1885 May 1896 Waterloo & Cedar Falls Rapid Transit Co. [63]: 202–220 Electric 1896 August 1939
MetroLink operates 87 Siemens SD-400 and SD-460 light rail vehicles. Each 90-foot-long (27 m), single articulated vehicle has four high platform doors per side and can hold 72 seated and 106 standing passengers. [42] [43] The cars are powered by an electric motor which gets its electricity from an overhead line with a 750 V DC supply. [44]
MetroLink currently has 38 stations; 13 are served only by the Red Line, nine only by the Blue Line, and the other 16 by both lines. Thirteen stations are located in the City of St. Louis; 14 in St. Louis County; and 11 in St. Clair County, Illinois. Central West End is the busiest station by daily ridership, Sunnen is the least busy. [3] [4]