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Jan 21, 2016 · Trackless Trolley 1117 and Car 4235 at St. Clair and East 30th St. on their last day in 1951. Cleveland Transit Car 4008 and Trackless Trolley 1137 at the St. Clair Station in Cleveland, Ohio ...
Nov 3, 2015 · A Cleveland Transit Car at the intersection of West 65th Street and Lorain Avenue. West 65th and Bridge Ave, 1947 The house on West 48th St and Vine St. where 4-year-old Denise Kay Gravely was ...
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INSET: CENTRAL CLEVELAND I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA(Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence). Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time t...
CLEVELAND STREETCAR ROUTES
Operator: Cleveland Transit System
LIGHT RAIL ROUTES
Operator: Shaker Heights Rapid Transit The streetcar route numbers and the letters used for light rail routes are of an indicative nature only, and were not used by the operator.
NETWORK LENGTH
1. Streetcar network: ? km. 2. Light rail: ? km.
HISTORY
1. Streetcars (traditional): (horse-powered) 5 Sept. 1860 - 1892; (steam): 1 Sept. 1868 - July 1882; (electric) 26 July 1894 - 23 Jan. 1954. 2. Light rail: 17 Dec. 1913 - today. 3. Cable cars: 17 Dec. 1890 - 15 Dec. 1901. 4. Interurbans: 1895 - 15 May 1938.
GAUGE
1. Streetcars & interurbans: 1435 mm.
PRINT
1. Canfield, J. (ed.) "Electric railways of Northeastern Ohio" Central Electric Railfans' Association Bulletin1965 (#108). 2. Simons, V. "Cleveland: 1980s confidence justified" Tramways & Urban Transit. July 2010 (73: 87), p.255-257.
WIKIS
1. Blue Line (Cleveland) 2. Cleveland Railway (Ohio) 3. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 4. Green Line (Cleveland) 5. Lake Shore Electric Railway 6. Red Line (Cleveland) 7. RTA Light Rail Historic Route Maps 8. RTA Rapid Transit 9. Streetcars in Cleveland 10. Waterfront Line
WEB SITES
1. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) Special thanks to Russell Powersfrom Denver CO for information on the history of the Cleveland system. Copyright Gabor Sandi 1998-2024 Disclaimer: Everything on this site was written and/or prepared at the author's discretion. The author has tried to be accurate where facts are presented, but this does not mean that these facts are necessarily accurate. People needing more reliable information should refer to appropriate sources presented,...
Jun 13, 2023 · From the early 1900s up until 1969, this park is where Clevelanders flocked to cool off in warm, summer weather and ride the rides at the amusement park. 11. Central High School, 1912 Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library. There are many historic pictures of Cleveland's Central High School out there.
Jun 20, 2024 · There are even parts of old cars around to tour. It’s a peek into the city’s former streetcar system, which ran in the space when the bridge opened in 1918, all the way up to 1954. But every year, the bridge opens to the public — and this year, it’ll be open on Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22. “Since 1954, this lower level hasn ...
The former acquired 30 attractive steel cars from the Cleveland-based G. C. KUHLMAN CAR CO. in 1920-21, and the latter purchased 6 steel Kuhlman-built cars in 1919 and a dozen lightweight ones from the Cincinnati Car Co. in 1924. The LSE, together with the NOT&L, successfully pushed for the standardization of boxcars for interurban freight service, and by 1926 both roads operated this state-of ...
Cleveland Engine Plant number 2 opened in 1955 [3] to produce the Y-block 292 V8 for the Ford Thunderbird. It was the source of the famed 351 Cleveland V8, and most recently, it was the site for Duratec 25 and 30 production starting in 1994. [ 3 ]
