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December 7, 1952 Chicago PCC routes 49 (Western Avenue) and 63 (63rd Street) were converted to bus operation on weekends and holidays. December 7, 1952 Philadelphia became the first city to ban

December 6, 1903 Indiana Union Traction Company opens its Indianapolis to Kokomo route. December 6, 1917 In the largest explosion to this date (comparable to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in

December 5, 1954 The last New Jersey trolley line to operate on a main street, the Atlantic Avenue trolley line in Atlantic City, was cut back from Longport to the Douglas Avenue loop in upper

December 5, 1868 The Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad (later PRR) Board appoints a committee to settle a dispute between the Grand Rapids & Indiana (later PRR) and the Kalamazoo, Allegan &

December 4, 1955 As a result of Chicago's route 36 Broadway-State changeover, the State Street buses began operation from 120th and Morgan to Grand Avenue and the Broadway PCC cars began operation

December 4, 1820 John Stevens proposes to build a railroad from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. He also offers to build a quarter-mile demonstration railroad on Market Street in Philadelphia. December 4,

December 3, 1961 Washington PCC routes 40, 42, and 44 (Mt. Pleasant) and route 60 (11th Street) were converted to bus operation and the DuPont Subway, which opened in 1949, closed and was later

December 3, 1844 Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn opens, however it will not be finished until late spring next year. Many regard the 2,517-foot tunnel as the first subway tunnel in the world. It has

December 2, 1954 Philadelphia Transportation Company purchased 90 used PCC cars from 2 midwestern cities to re-equip the 5 subway-surface car lines. Of these used PCC cars purchased, 50 were

December 2, 1855 The Rock Island reaches Iowa City only minutes before a midnight $50,000 bonus deadline. The locomotive is dragged the final 1,000 feet with ropes in minus 30-degree

November 30, 1955 Brooklyn's B-68 (Coney Island Avenue) trolley line, the only remaining portion of the world's first PCC car line, was converted to bus operation with surplus equipment.

November 29, 1847 Michigan's first telegraph line is completed along the Michigan Central Railroad tracks between Detroit and Ypsilanti. The first messages sent are long and range from the price of

November 28, 1962 An IND work train derailed and fell onto the street at Neptune Avenue-Van Sicklen on the Culver line in Coney Island, killing a crewman and cutting service with all D trains

November 28, 1909 Game Wardens in Floodwood, MI are surprised to discover their dogs “keying in” on a coffin waiting on the platform of the passenger station on the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad

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November 27, 1955 North Philadelphia trolley route 60 on Allegheny Avenue was relocated from Allegheny Depot to Luzerne, 5000-series cars and all. The route had been at Allegheny for 6 months, having

November 27, 1873 The Hoosac Tunnel on the Boston & Maine, the oldest railroad tunnel in the United States, is holed through. November 27, 1877 A Pittsburgh-Chicago RPO is established on the

November 26, 1967 The NYCTA's new Chrystie Street subway opened, connecting the IND 6th Avenue line with BMT lines crossing the Manhattan Bridge first, then the Williamsburgh Bridge. The new Grand

November 26, 1832 In New York City public service begins on the nation's first streetcar, a thirty-passenger horse-drawn car named the "John Mason", with iron wheels pulled over iron rails. The fare

November 25, 1952 Trolley service ended in Yonkers, leaving New York with only 4 lines--the Queensboro Bridge Railway and 3 Brooklyn PCC car lines (Church, Coney Island, and McDonald Avenues).