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The St. Charles Avenue Line is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world, beginning operation as a horse-drawn system in 1835; the line was electrified in 1893. Three additional lines built to more modern standards have been added since 1988. Philadelphia: SEPTA subway–surface trolley lines: 1906 19.8 mi (31.9 km) 5
Dating from 1923 and 1924, the Thomas streetcars are operated on the St. Charles line (the oldest streetcar line in the world). In 2005, all 35 Thomas streetcars survived Hurricane Katrina unharmed, while 30 of the 31 replica streetcars required restoration, placing them out of service through 2009. The Thomas cars are painted the traditional ...
St. Charles and St. Joseph Street (outbound) Howard Avenue and Carondelet Street (inbound) Arts and Warehouse District: By way of St. Charles Avenue from Tivoli Circle/Harmony Circle [17] to Carrollton Avenue: Tivoli Circle: Arts and Warehouse District: Stop is located south of Lee Circle where inbound and outbound tracks meet
80th Street–Eastwick: 7,101 Route 15 Trolley: Trolley: All Stops 63rd–Girard Richmond–Westmoreland: 4,762 Media–Sharon Hill Line: Trolley: Route 101 Orange Street/ Media: 69th Street: 2,023 Route 102 Chester Pike / Sharon Hill: 2,097 Norristown High Speed Line: Light metro: Local 69th Street: Norristown: 4,510
The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lying along the former Pennsylvania Railroad 's once prestigious Main Line , it runs northwest from Center City Philadelphia parallel to Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike , also known as U ...
At the same time, the north-south leg of the Philadelphia City Railroad opened, running south along Broad Street from the Philadelphia and Columbia. The Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad opened in 1834, connecting the Philadelphia and Columbia to the Delaware River north of downtown, and later that year the Southwark Rail-Road ...
The Omaha Motor Railway Company began operation in 1888. [14] Along the east coast a large-scale electric street railway system known as the Richmond Union Passenger Railway was built by Frank J. Sprague in Richmond, Virginia, and was operating by February 2, 1888. The Richmond system had a large impact upon the burgeoning electric trolley ...
In 1839, the railroad's ticket agents advertised daily mail-and-passenger trains that left Baltimore's old original Pratt Street station at South Charles Street of the B&O (before 1857-65 construction of the now-famous Camden Street Station) at 9:30 a.m., stopped for lunch in Wilmington, Delaware, and reached the Market Street depot in ...