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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 ...
The city of Cleveland bought out Cleveland Railway in 1942 and used it as the nucleus for the Cleveland Transit System, the precursor to the current Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. The Cleveland streetcars were sold to the Toronto Transit Commission , where they remained in service for thirty years until 1982.
The G. C. Kuhlman Car Company was a leading American manufacturer of streetcars and interurbans in the early 20th century. [1] 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.
Historic district of 43 buildings constructed between 1888 and 1930. The district runs on Broadway between Cable and Barkwill Avenues, and on E. 55th Street between Lufkin and Broadway Avenues, with a few buildings to either side. It is the heart of the Czech community in Cleveland, and was once the second largest shopping district in the city. 20
As James Borchert wrote in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Electrified streetcar development in the late 1880s transformed the metropolis. Three times faster than horse-drawn streetcars (15 vs. 5 mph), they permitted radial suburban development up to 10(–20) miles from the city center.
The Conrail system in Cleveland featured a number of routes and secondary lines. The former New York Central Chicago Line was the primary east–west route through Cleveland, with the addition of the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland line, allowing traffic to and from the Pittsburgh region to pass through to points near Buffalo or Chicago and Detroit.
Lakewood is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, on the southern shore of Lake Erie.Established in 1889, it is one of Cleveland's historical streetcar suburbs and part of the Cleveland metropolitan area.
A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation. Such suburbs developed in the United States in the years before the automobile, when the introduction of the electric trolley or streetcar allowed the nation’s burgeoning middle class to move beyond the central city’s borders. [1]