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The service used original San Antonio streetcar No. 300, built in 1913 by the American Car Company and owned by the San Antonio Museums Association ever since the abandonment of the city's last streetcar lines in 1933. [1] The new Art Museum was opened in 1981 in the former Lone Star Brewery complex, which had been one of TXTC's customers.
VIA's original logo, used until 2014. VIA was created in 1977 when the citizens of Bexar County voted in favor of a one-half cent sales tax to fund the service. Subsequently, VIA purchased transit assets from the City of San Antonio and began operations in March 1978, taking its name from the Latin word for "road".
see also Key System, San Francisco. Oakland, San Leandro and Hayward Electric Railway: ♦ Oakland – Hayward Electric May 1892: March 10, 1935: Later part of the Key System: Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railroad Company: ♦ Ontario – Upland: Horse 1887: 1895 Pacific Electric: Electric Interurban 1895: October 6, 1928 Oxnard: Petrol ...
In addition to New Orleans' streetcars, Toronto's conventional electric streetcar system also avoided abandonment, as did portions of the streetcar systems in San Francisco, Boston, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, [33] as well as Mexico City. The Newark, Philadelphia, and Boston systems run into subways downtown, while the ...
The museum was originally located at the Pearl Brewing Company in Downtown San Antonio and had used the tracks of the Texas Transportation Company. In 1967 the museum was granted use of approximately forty acres (16 ha) of what was then known as the Northeast Preserve, now McAllister Park, just north of the San Antonio International Airport on ...
Houston Street is one of San Antonio's oldest and most popular streets. Situated in the middle of the city's central business district, it is a major pedestrian thoroughfare and commercial district. Retail shops, chic restaurants, lofts, office space, and theaters line Houston from the Alamo to Santa Rosa, giving the street its famously ...
The streetcar suspended service on Sept. 30 and used buses to take passengers along the streetcar route. The work was expected to last about four weeks, but was completed ahead of schedule.
The Astoria Riverfront Trolley is a 3-mile (4.8 km) heritage streetcar line that operates in Astoria, Oregon, United States, using former freight railroad tracks along or near the south bank of the Columbia River, with no overhead line. The service began operating in 1999, using a 1913-built streetcar from San Antonio, Texas. [2]