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Muntz Car Company produced cars from 1950 through 1954 in Chicago. [82] Muntz was assisted by Frank Kurtis, who had earlier attempted to produce a sports car under the Kurtis Kraft marque (the Kurtis Kraft Sport, which sold just 36 units by 1950). [83] The company managed to produce only about 400 cars during 1951–1954.
The Chicago Surface Lines was primarily a trolley operation, with approximately 3100 streetcars on the roster at the time of the CTA takeover. [16] It purchased small lots of motor buses, [17] totaling 693 at the time of the CTA takeover, mostly consisting of smaller buses used on extension routes or to replace two-man streetcars on routes such as Hegewisch and 111th Street, because conductors ...
Club Car Chicago and North Western: 1955 St. Louis: 8700–8763 Coach/Cab 1960–68 Pullman: Retired – one preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum 8749 is a bicycle car. VRE: 710–730 [20] Unspecified VRE: 2006–08 Sumitomo/ Nippon Sharyo: Operating 800–819, 850–869, 870–879 [20] Unspecified 2007-09 820–848 † [20] Unspecified ...
Thirty-four people died in the streetcar while another fifty, some on the streetcar and others in the surrounding area, were injured. [1] [5] According to the National Safety Council’s report two days after the crash, it was the largest death toll from a motor vehicle collision, surpassing the 29 people killed in a 1940 Texas train-truck collision. [6]
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Chicago Cable Cars. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-60949-327-1. Lind, Alan R. (1979). Chicago Surface Lines: An Illustrated History. Transport History Press. ISBN 0-934732-00-0. Hilton, George W. (1982). the Cable Car in America. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3051-2. Young, David M. (1998). Chicago Transit An Illustrated History ...