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Streetcar strikes rank among the deadliest armed conflicts in American labor union history. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor called the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 "the fiercest struggle ever waged by the organized toilers" [21] up to that point, with a total casualty count of 14 dead and about 200 wounded.
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.
John G. Stephenson (1809 in County Armagh, Ireland - 1893 in New Rochelle, N.Y.), [1] an American coachbuilder, invented and patented the first streetcar to run on rails in the United States. [2] Stephenson also designed the New York and Harlem Railroad which was formally opened on 26 November 1832.
With over 14,000 units, Tatra T3 is the most widely produced type in history. [1]A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
The first streetcar in America, developed by John Stephenson, began service in the year 1832. [6] This was the New York and Harlem Railroad's Fourth Avenue Line which ran along the Bowery and Fourth Avenue in New York City. These trams were an animal railway, usually using horses and sometimes mules to haul the cars, usually two as a team ...
The Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) is a streetcar design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful domestically, and after World War II it was licensed for use elsewhere in the world where PCC based cars were made.
John Stephenson invented the first streetcar to run on rails, building this in 1832, for the New York and Harlem Railroad. [1] A reorganization in 1867 included shortening of the company's name to the John Stephenson Company.
Streetcars began operation in New York City along the Bowery in 1832, [3] but the technology did not really become popular until 1852, when Alphonse Loubat invented a side-bearing rail that could be laid flush with the street surface, allowing the first horse-drawn streetcar lines. [4]