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January 21, 1951 Chicago trolley route 55 (Elston Avenue) and its short trolleybus extension were converted to bus operation. January 21, 1955 After the evening rush hour, full time PCC car service

January 21, 1841 George Hacker patents a passenger car based on a tobacco barrel. The car was intended to be 30’ long with 20 windows, but the design was never built. January 21, 1880 The Ontario &

January 20, 1947 Work began on the Market Street Subway extension to 46th Street in West Philadelphia with groundbreaking ceremonies beginning at 33rd and Market Streets for the extension of the

January 20, 1837 An advertisement in the “Toledo Blade” states that the Erie & Kalamazoo has received its first steam engine, and service will commence “in a few days”. January 20, 1848 The

January 19, 1953 On the eve of the Eisenhower inauguration, Pennsylvania PUC officials announced plans for the Philadelphia Transportation Company to abandon Market Street trolley route 18. This route

January 19, 1852 The 6-foot gauge Erie & Northeast Railroad opens between Erie PA and the New York State line, connecting with the Buffalo & State Line Railroad (later NYC). January 19, 1852 The New

January 18, 1948 The Shore Fast Line, the interurban line that ran from Atlantic City to Somers Point, was converted to bus operation. All 100-series interurban cars were stored at the Inlet Shops and

January 18, 1854 The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad is organized to build from Hartford, IN, to the Michigan state line as part of a route between Louisville and northern Michigan. January 18, 1878

January 15, 1970 The NYCTA transferred all R-16 subway cars to the Queens Boulevard IND for local services on the EE and GG lines. January 17, 1954 The New York Division, ERA, the Metropolitan

January 15, 1829 The "America", the first steam locomotive in the United States, arrives at New York. January 15, 1831 The first American-built locomotive to pull a passenger train, "Best Friend",

January 14, 1878 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the federal government has no power to overturn state laws creating segregated accommodations in railroad cars, opening the way for Southern states

January 13, 1842 The Philadelphia & Reading (later Reading) opens for revenue freight and passenger service from Mount Carmel to Philadelphia. Its coal-hauling operations will prove that a rail road

January 12, 1986 Philadelphia trolley routes 6 (City portion on Ogontz Avenue), 50 (Rising Sun Avenue-4th and 5th Streets), and 60 (Allegheny Avenue) were converted to bus operation. Route 60 hadn't

January 12, 1830 DeWitt Clinton Jr. reports to several New York businessmen on the cost of building a rail road from New York to New Orleans. The proposal calls for using stone sleepers north of

January 11, 1955 The NYCTA's first train of new R-16 subway cars went into service on the BMT Broadway-Jamaica line. Two trains of R10 subway cars were already in service on this line after the R-16s

January 11, 1859 The Atchison & Topeka Railroad (later AT&SF, BNSF) is chartered. January 11, 1868 The Sandusky & Cincinnati Railroad reforms as the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad (later

January 8, 1855 The first through train runs from Chicago to Cairo, IL. January 8, 1855 A mob in Erie, PA tears up the tracks of the Erie & North Eastern, the last battle in the "Gauge War". January

January 7, 1830 The first railroad station in the U.S. opens in Baltimore for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which today is opening its first segment of track. The first revenue rail passengers in the

January 6, 1853 The New Jersey Railroad, Camden & Amboy, Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore and the Baltimore & Ohio begin advertising that they will operate a continuous connecting railroad for

December 5, 1970 New York's subway and bus fares rose from 20 to 30 cents. Dennis M Linsky [email protected]> wrote: