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The Pittsburgh, Crafton and Mansfield (Carnegie) Railway was chartered to build a streetcar line through Sheraden in 1897. The line (combined in 1950 with Route 34 to form the 31/34 Elliott-Ingram) closed when the Point Bridge closed as the replacement did not have tracks. 32 Elliott by 1915 [1] June 6, 1953 [12] Double-ended shuttle.
Pittsburgh Citizens Traction Company c. 1894. 1895 to 1905 was a time of consolidation for the numerous street railways serving Pittsburgh. On July 24, 1895 the Consolidated Traction Company (CTC) was chartered and the following year acquired the Central Traction Company, Citizens Traction Company, Duquesne Traction Company and Pittsburgh Traction Company and converted them to electric ...
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.
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...
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.
The Pittsburgh and Butler Street Railway was opened in 1907 between Pittsburgh and Butler [2] traveling via Etna, Glenshaw, Allison Park, and Mars. It initially used a 6,600 volt single phase alternating current electrical system. [ 3 ]
In the early 1960s, Pittsburgh had the largest surviving streetcar system in the United States, with the privately owned Pittsburgh Railways Company operating more than 600 PCC cars on 41 routes. In 1964 the system was acquired by the Port Authority of Allegheny County , which rapidly converted most routes to buses.
The Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway, commonly called the Harmony Line, was a broad gauge [1] interurban streetcar line connecting Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States to Butler and New Castle via Harmony and a split at Evans City. There was also an extension that was later added to the line from Ellwood City to Beaver Falls.