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Trackage remains active with no scheduled service. 53 Carrick via South 18th Street 1901 [23] Nov 13, 1971: Terminus in Brentwood. Rerouted via tunnel March 31, 1968. [2] Last car 1627 55 East Pittsburgh via Homestead and Braddock by 1915 [1] Jul 4, 1964 [6] Replaced by bus when Glenwood Bridge rebuilt without trolley tracks. 55A Munhall via ...
Pittsburgh Regional Transit's bus system covers Allegheny County, and its service extends into small portions of neighboring Beaver, Butler, and Westmoreland counties. These counties also have their own transit systems, including several routes that run into Downtown Pittsburgh, where riders can make connections with Pittsburgh Regional Transit service.
The agency was founded in 1956 as the Port Authority of Allegheny County, and began operating transit service in 1964. PRT pioneered bus rapid transit in the United States with the opening of the South Busway in 1977, and continues to operate bus rapid transit services as a core part of its network. In 2023, the system had a ridership of ...
The trolley involved in the 1917 crash, car #4236, a low-floor, double-ended trolley, was built as part of the Pittsburgh Railways 4200 series by the St. Louis Car Company in 1914. The 4200 series cars had a nominal passenger capacity of 55 seated and 29 standing, but the trolley on Christmas Eve was overloaded, with a total of 117 passengers ...
The Transit Expressway Revenue Line (TERL), commonly known as Skybus, was a proposed people mover rapid transit system developed by Westinghouse for the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1960s–1970s. In contrast to the traditional streetcars then in use, the technology used a dedicated elevated concrete track and rubber-tired ...
In 1905, Pittsburgh Railways leased the route, and between 1909 and 1910, converted it to dual gauge, retaining the existing narrow gauge for the coal hauling trains and adding the broad 5 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,588 mm) Pennsylvania trolley gauge for passenger service using streetcars.
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.
Tramway line built and two cars purchased, but public service was not started. [37]: 58 Fort Collins Municipal Railway: Fort Collins: Electric December 29, 1907. December 29, 1984 June 30, 1951 Heritage streetcar service opened December 29, 1984, [39] using the same name as the former system. Grand Junction Street Railway [38]: 238–240 Grand ...