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The line from Pittsburgh was extended from Hays to Dravosburg in 1895 and a trestle linking the two lines was completed in 1897. [24] 56A Lincoln Place via 2nd Ave. Aug 31, 1963 [6] 57 Glenwood Mar 1890 [13] Jul 4, 1964 [6] First permanent electric line in Pittsburgh, Second Avenue Traction Co. Short turn of the 56. 58 Greenfield by 1915 [1 ...
The 4000-series PCC was a rebuilt PCC streetcar used by the Port Authority of Allegheny County.Originally designed by the Presidents' Conference Committee, a group of transit operators in the United States and Canada, the 4000's were a series of PCC cars completely rebuilt from cars built in 1949 by the St. Louis Car Company for Port Authority's predecessor, Pittsburgh Railways.
Originally steam powered, the Duquesne Incline was designed by Samuel Diescher, a Hungarian-American civil engineer based in Pittsburgh, and completed in 1877.The incline is 800 feet (244 m) long, 400 feet (122 m) in height, and is inclined at a 30-degree angle.
The origin of the museum can be traced to a group of electric railway enthusiasts who in 1949 acquired Pittsburgh Railways Company M-1, a small four-wheel Pittsburgh trolley. It and Pittsburgh Railways Company 3756 (a single-end low-floor car) and West Penn Railways Company 832 were stored for the group until 1954 in Ingram Car House by ...
Pittsburgh Railways was formed on January 1, 1902, when the Southern Traction Company acquired operating rights over the Consolidated Traction Company and United Traction Company. [9] The new company operated 1,100 trolleys on 400 miles (640 km) of track, with 178.7 million passengers and revenues of $6.7 million on the year. [10]
The wooden interior of a restored 1924 streetcar at the corner of West Holly and E streets in the Old Town district of Bellingham, Wash., on Wednesday, July 31, 2024.
The 47D was the last line in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to use PCC streetcars.It originally was part of an interurban trolley line that ran from Pittsburgh to Washington, Pennsylvania [1] until 1953, when the service was cut back to the Allegheny County border at Drake [2] and all trolleys turned using the newly constructed loop, situated below the trestle.
This is “Small Bites,” a South Florida Sun Sentinel feature with tiny tidbits on the food and beverage scene — because we know that sometimes you just don’t have room for a long article.