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The Phoenix Trolley Museum, when it was located at 25 W. Culver St. The museum has since relocated to 1117 Grand Avenue. The main exhibit of the museum is trolley car #116. The Phoenix Street Railway provided streetcar service in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, from 1888 to 1948. The motto was "Ride a Mile and Smile the While."
The Phoenix Trolley Museum, incorporated as the Arizona Street Railway Museum, is a railway museum established in 1975, with an emphasis on preserving historical street cars in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The museum is "dedicated to the preservation of original Phoenix trolley cars and memorabilia, and to showing their place in the history of ...
The Phoenix Street Railway provided streetcar service from 1887 to 1948. Historic vehicles may be seen at the Phoenix Trolley Museum , with Car #116 celebrating her 80th birthday on December 25, 2008, just days before the opening of modern rail service.
Phoenix Street Railway [3] Phoenix (first era) Horse November 5, 1887: June 8, 1895 Electric September 28, 1893: February 16, 1948: See Phoenix Street Railway. Interurban line to Glendale opened 1911. Planned extensions to Scottsdale, Tempe, and Mesa were never built. Tempe Street Railway: Tempe (in Phoenix metropolitan area) Horse February 22 ...
The Phoenix Street Railway electrified its mule-drawn streetcar lines in 1893, with streetcar service continuing until a 1947 fire. Another important event which occurred in 1893 was the passage of a territorial law which allowed Phoenix to annex land surrounding the city, as long as it obtained the permission of the inhabitants of that area.
Grand Canyon Railway: ATSF: 1901 1942 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Johnson, Dragoon Mountain and Northern Railway: SP: 1907 1908 Johnson–Dragoon and Northern Railway: Johnson–Dragoon and Northern Railway: SP: 1908 1911 Southern Pacific Company: Magma Arizona Railroad: MAA 1914 1997 N/A Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad: SP: 1907 1910 ...
The Valley Metro Light Rail system map. Valley Metro Rail is a light rail transit system that serves the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, United States.The light rail system, which operates under the Valley Metro brand name, has 41 stations and 29.8 miles (48.0 km) of tracks within the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa. [1]
For example, the western half of Van Buren Street was served by route 3W, and the eastern half of Van Buren Street was served by route 3E. Most bus routes inherited a seemingly arbitrary, but chronologically assigned, system from their Phoenix Street Railway heritage (for example, route 0-Central was originally numbered route 5). Express routes ...