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The Cleveland Railway converted a few streetcar lines in the 1930s, but the onset of World War II stopped any further conversions. In 1942, the Cleveland Transit System took over the operation of all streetcar, bus and trackless trolley lines from the Cleveland Railway. Following the war, CTS undertook a program of replacing all existing ...
The Peter Witt streetcar was introduced by Cleveland Railway commissioner Peter Witt (1869–1948) who led the transit agency from 1911 to 1915 and designed a model of streetcar known by his name [1] that was used in many North American cities, most notably in Toronto and Cleveland.
The GCRTA was established on December 30, 1974, [7] and on September 5, 1975 assumed control of the Cleveland Transit System, which operated the heavy rail line from Windermere to Cleveland Hopkins Airport and the local bus systems, and Shaker Heights Rapid Transit (the descendant of a separate streetcar system formed by the Van Sweringen brothers to serve their Shaker Heights development ...
PCC streetcar 4201 in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1950s - later sold to Toronto Transportation Commission and re-classed as TTC A11 car 4626. The Cleveland Railway Company was the public transit operator in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1910 to 1942.
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1892 Indianapolis streetcar strike; 1895, Brooklyn, New York City, the first in which Farley was involved; 1896, Milwaukee [8] 1899, Cleveland, Ohio; 1900, St. Louis, where the dynamiting of streetcars was a "nightly occurrence" [9] 1903, Los Angeles; 1907, San Francisco, California, with 31 killed and an estimated 1000 people injured; 1908 ...
The G. C. Kuhlman Car Company was a leading American manufacturer of streetcars and interurbans in the early 20th century. [1] The company was based in Cleveland, Ohio . The Kuhlman Car Company was founded in 1892 [ 1 ] by Gustav C. Kuhlman (c.1859-1915), his father and three other brothers.
In 2007, the American Public Transportation Association named Cleveland's mass transit system the best in North America. [4] Cleveland is the only metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere with its rail rapid transit system having only one center-city area rapid transit station (Tower City-Public Square).