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This is a route-map template for the St. Charles Streetcar Line, a United States heritage streetcar.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: Successor: Amtrak (passengers) Conrail system (freight) Technical; Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Electrification: 12 kV 25 Hz: Length: 717 miles / 1,154 km (pre-PCC&StL merger)
80th Street–Eastwick: 7,101 Route 15 Trolley: Trolley: All Stops 63rd–Girard Richmond–Westmoreland: 4,762 Media–Sharon Hill Line: Trolley: Route 101 Orange Street/ Media: 69th Street: 2,023 Route 102 Chester Pike / Sharon Hill: 2,097 Norristown High Speed Line: Light metro: Local 69th Street: Norristown: 4,510
0–9. 2nd Street station (SEPTA) 5th Street/Independence Hall station; 8th Street station (Philadelphia) 9–10th & Locust station; 11th Street station (SEPTA)
Schematic map of subway–surface branches and termini. The subway–surface lines are remnants of the far more extensive streetcar system that developed in Philadelphia after the arrival of electric trolleys in 1892. Several dozen traction companies were consolidated in 1902 into the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.
Philadelphia's Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station – also known as the B & O station or Chestnut Street station [2] – was the main passenger station for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Frank Furness in 1886, [3] it stood at 24th Street and the Chestnut Street Bridge from 1888 to 1963. [4]
R. Damon Childs was a junior land planner with the Philadelphia City Planning Commission when he proposed the CCCC to permit through-routing of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Railroad suburban lines. There already was a 0.8-mile (1.3 km) subway from 16th Street to 20th Street, a portion of the trackage connecting Suburban Station ...
However, what might be termed the "Celtification" of many Main Line place and street names occurred long after colonial times. So, for instance, as a marketing device to attract wealthy new residents, the area once awkwardly named Athensville became the more culturally glamorous Ardmore (Ardmore is a place name found in Ireland and Scotland) in ...