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The Chicago Surface Lines was primarily a trolley operation, with approximately 3100 streetcars on the roster at the time of the CTA takeover. [16] It purchased small lots of motor buses, [17] totaling 693 at the time of the CTA takeover, mostly consisting of smaller buses used on extension routes or to replace two-man streetcars on routes such as Hegewisch and 111th Street, because conductors ...
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Possibly influenced by the 1967 Chicago blizzard, during which CTA trolley buses were unable to maneuver around abandoned automobiles without dewiring, CTA decided to discontinue trolley bus service. Trolley bus service was phased out in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and trolley buses ran for the last time on March 25, 1973. [18] [19] CTA ...
The North American English use of the term "trolley" instead of "tram" for a street railway vehicle derives from the work that Sprague did in Richmond and quickly spread elsewhere. Los Angeles built the largest electric tramway system in the world, which grew to over 1600 km of track. A horse-drawn tramway was commenced in L.A. in 1872.
July 31, 1881: July 1882 Pueblo Street Railroad [38]: 272–274 Pueblo: Horse 1879: 1890 Pueblo Electric Street Railway [38]: 274–280 Electric June 12, 1890: November 29, 1947 Manitou Electric Railway & Casino Co. [38] ♦ Manitou Springs Electric 1895: 1928 Trinidad Street Railway [38]: 284–285 Trinidad: Horse 1882: 1893
Gleicy Martinez, 27, from Venezuela, has lived for three weeks in a tent outside a Chicago police station with her two children, including a 9-year-old who is blind. They rarely leave the tent ...
A courtroom at the Area 3 police station at Belmont and Western avenues on the city’s Northwest Side will be reopened to handle “coordinated multiple arrests” — situations in which an ...
31st was a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's South Side Main Line, which is now part of the Green Line. The station was located at 31st Street near State Street in the Douglas neighborhood of Chicago. [1] 31st was situated south of 29th and north of 33rd. 31st opened on June 6, 1892, and closed on August 1, 1949. [2]