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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 ...
Many of these facilities are former streetcar carhouses that were gradually converted to trackless trolley and bus use, although some like Southampton (built 2004) are of recent construction. Of the former streetcar carhouses, only Arborway and Watertown were Green Line yards during part of the MBTA era. Everett was an Orange Line yard until 1975.
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 ...
Defunct MBTA streetcar lines. Add languages ... English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; General ...
The Boston Street Railway Association (BSRA) is a non-profit organization in Boston, Massachusetts, whose central objective is preserving transportation history in Boston and throughout New England. They host monthly membership meetings, publish a bimonthly transit news magazine , and are restoring an ex-Boston Type 5 streetcar .
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.
1892 Indianapolis streetcar strike; 1895, Brooklyn, New York City, the first in which Farley was involved; 1896, Milwaukee [8] 1899, Cleveland, Ohio; 1900, St. Louis, where the dynamiting of streetcars was a "nightly occurrence" [9] 1903, Los Angeles; 1907, San Francisco, California, with 31 killed and an estimated 1000 people injured; 1908 ...
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 ...