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Conestoga Traction's connections to adjacent interurban trolley companies such as Philadelphia and West Chester (later Red Arrow; now today's operating Media–Sharon Hill Line), West Chester Street Railway, West Chester and Coatesville Traction, Schuylkill Valley Traction, Reading Transit, Hershey Transit, and Harrisburg Railways, one could ride trolleys from Philadelphia to Harrisburg ...
Ottawa Car Company - Ottawa, Ontario, 1891–1948 [2] Preston Car Company - Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge, Ontario ), 1908–1921, bought by Brill [ 2 ] Toronto Railway Company - Toronto , Ontario , 1891–1920, wooden cars for mostly in-house use only, but built some cars for Mexico and Western Canadian operators by subsidiary Convertible ...
Oskaloosa Traction & Light Co. [63]: 172–173 Oskaloosa: Horse 1880 1898 Electric 1898 May 1926 Oskaloosa ― Beacon: Electric Interurban November 24, 1906 May 1926 Ottumwa: Horse 1881 1892 Three horsecar companies operated in the city until the 1890s. [63]: 54 Ottumwa Railway & Electric Co. [63]: 54–55 Electric November 28, 1889
Denver cable car, 1895 Denver Tramway Corporation logo on trolleybus No. 553. The Denver Tramway, operating in Denver, Colorado, was a streetcar system incorporated in 1886. . The tramway was unusual for a number of reasons: the term "tramway" is generally not used in the United States, and it is not known why the company was named as s
The Denver Trolley operates a 1986 replica of a 1903 Brill open streetcar. The frame and steel components of the car used in the construction are from a 1924 Melbourne , Australia streetcar . Numbered 1977, the car was made by the Gomaco Trolley Company in Ida Grove, Iowa. [ 2 ]
In Philadelphia, a former trolley line (SEPTA Route 15, aka. the Girard Avenue Line), that was "bustituted" in 1992, resumed trolley service in 2005 using rebuilt historic cars (see below); two other former Philadelphia trolley lines have been proposed for a resumption in trolley service in the 2010s though such plans have stalled.
Share certificate issued by the J. G. Brill Company, issued on April 11, 1921 A 1903 Brill-built streetcar on a heritage streetcar line in Sintra, Portugal in 2010. The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars, [1] interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearly 90 years, hence the longest-lasting trolley and interurban manufacturer.
This is a list of heritage railroads in the United States; there are currently no such railroads in two U.S. states, Mississippi and North Dakota. Visitors aboard the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway in Blue Ridge, Georgia