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This is a route-map template for the Loop Trolley, a St. Louis heritage streetcar.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Loop Trolley is a 2.2-mile (3.5 km), 10-station heritage streetcar line in and near the Delmar Loop area of greater St. Louis, Missouri, United States.It opened for service in 2018, then shut down in 2019 after revenue fell far short of projections.
This section of the Loop Trolley line had opened for service only a little more than two weeks earlier, on November 23. (The line's easternmost portion, which is entirely outside University City, had opened one week earlier.) Car 001 is ex-Portland Vintage Trolley car 512, a replica of a 1903 Brill streetcar built in 1991 by the Gomaco Trolley ...
The area gets its name from a streetcar turnaround, or "loop", formerly located in the area. [2]Delmar Boulevard was originally known as Morgan Street. According to Norbury L. Wayman in his circa 1980 series History of St. Louis Neighborhoods, [3] the name Delmar was coined when two early landowners living on opposite sides of the road, one from Delaware and one from Maryland, combined the ...
The Loop Trolley on Delmar Boulevard in 2018. The Loop Trolley is a 2.2-mile (3.5 km) heritage streetcar line that runs from City Hall in University City to the Missouri History Museum and Forest Park in St. Louis. The 10 station line travels along Delmar Boulevard through the Delmar Loop and DeBaliviere
In 2018, a 2.2-mile (3.5 km), 10-station heritage streetcar line was completed in and near the Delmar Loop area. Since 2022, the Loop Trolley has been operated in summer and fall by the Metro Transit division of the Bi-State Development Agency .
The line travels along Delmar Bouleverd through the popular Delmar Loop district and DeBaliviere Avenue between Delmar and Forest Park. The trolley has stops at both the Forest Park-DeBaliviere and Delmar Loop MetroLink stations. On February 18, 2022, Metro Transit's board voted to take over operation of the Loop Trolley after several financial ...
On July 26, 2022, the Delmar Loop station was impacted by a flash flood that shut down MetroLink for nearly 72 hours and caused roughly $40 million in overall damage. [7] [8] Damage near the Delmar Loop station included roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) of track bed, a communications room and a two-car train. [9]