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The Cleveland Railway converted a few streetcar lines in the 1930s, but the onset of World War II stopped any further conversions. In 1942, the Cleveland Transit System took over the operation of all streetcar, bus and trackless trolley lines from the Cleveland Railway. Following the war, CTS undertook a program of replacing all existing ...
Boston-area streetcar lines remaining in 1940 (in green), plotted against a map of the BERy's subway and elevated lines (in purple). The shade of green for each line denotes how long the line lasted after this; the lightest-green lines were abandoned in 1945 or earlier, the second-lightest lines were abandoned from 1946 to 1950, the second-darkest lines were abandoned from 1951 to 1969, and ...
The company was based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Kuhlman Car Company was founded in 1892 [1] by Gustav C. Kuhlman (c.1859-1915), his father and three other brothers. It was acquired by the J. G. Brill Company in 1904, but continued building under the Kuhlman name. It was reorganized in 1931 as J. G. Brill of Ohio, but ceased operations completely ...
An MBTA train, c. 1979 An MBTA bus, c. 1972. The history of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and its predecessors spans two centuries, starting with one of the oldest railroads in the United States. Development of mass transportation both followed existing economic and population patterns, and helped shape those patterns.
Streetcar strikes rank among the deadliest armed conflicts in American labor union history. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor called the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 "the fiercest struggle ever waged by the organized toilers" [21] up to that point, with a total casualty count of 14 dead and about 200 wounded.
[citation needed] (See MBTA History and MBTA Future plans sections.) Streetcar congestion in downtown Boston led to the creation of underground subways and elevated rail, the former in 1897 and the latter in 1901. The Tremont Street subway was the first rapid transit tunnel in the United States and had a 24/7 service. [4]
See Boston-area streetcar lines. The surviving portions are the Mattapan Line and the MBTA Green Line. See also: Category:Streetcars in the Boston area. Brockton: Horse July 26, 1881 ? Electric September 5, 1890 July 11, 1937 Conway: Horse April 1, 1895 1921 Fall River: Horse 1880 1891 Electric 1892 September 20, 1936
PCC streetcar 4201 in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1950s - later sold to Toronto Transportation Commission and re-classed as TTC A11 car 4626. The Cleveland Railway Company was the public transit operator in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1910 to 1942.