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April 5, 1953 Philadelphia trolley route 65 on Old York Road and 6th and 7th Streets was abandoned without replacement in the first move to eliminate duplication of service by other routes. The route

April 4, 1839 Alarmed by the fact that steamboats and railroads provide quick and superior escape routes for runaway slaves, the Maryland Legislature prohibits any slave from traveling on a steamboat

April 3, 1949 St. Louis converted its Manchester PCC routes to bus operation because of dangerous left hand operation on PRW. The routes were 53 (Maplewood), 54 (Webster), 55 (Clay and Adams), and 56

April 3, 1848 The Oakland & Ottawa (later D&M, GT) is chartered by the Michigan State Legislature to construct a railroad from Pontiac to Lake Michigan in Ottawa County. April 3, 1853 The

April 2, 1853 An Act of the New York State Legislature approves the merger creating the New York Central Railroad. The merger will be ratified by stockholders in June. April 2, 1869 Incorporation

April 1, 1951 Brooklyn's Nostrand Avenue trolley route was converted to bus operation and the Holy Cross Cemetery Shuttle was abandoned. April

April 1, 1832 The Baltimore & Ohio opens from Frederick Junction to Point of Rocks MD on the Potomac River, about 71 miles from Baltimore. April 1, 1836 The Erie Railroad is incorporated. April 1,

March 31, 1977 The last NYCTA subway train of R-1/9 cars ran on the J (Jamaica-Nassau Street) line from 168th Street to Broad Street, then ran light via the express tracks of the Sea Beach like to

March 31, 1862 The "Oregon Pony" arrives in Portland OR, the first locomotive in the Pacific Northwest. March 31, 1870 The southern branch of the Union Pacific becomes the Missouri, Kansas & Texas

March 29, 1959 Philadelphia bus routes O from Logan to Huntingdon Valley and Y on Cottman Avenue were combined to form the present Y/70 bus route from the Fern Rock terminus of the Broad Street Subway

March 28, 1836 Michigan Territory charters seven railroads in a single day. March 28, 1846 The Central Rail Road of Michigan is sold by the state to a group of New York investors for $2 million

March 27, 1835 A rotary steam locomotive built by Willam Avery of Syracuse NY is tested on the New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Company between Hackensack and Passaic Rivers. It is not powerful

March 26, 1950 Baltimore PCC route 30 (Fremont Street) was converted to trolleybus operation with surplus ACF-Brill TC-44 trolleybuses. The PCCs were then transferred to routes 4 and 14.

March 26, 1860 The first freight car (loaded with lard) leaves St. Louis for New York via Buffalo and the New York Central. The trip will take five days. This is the first car to run through without

March 25, 1951 Cincinnati trolley routes 32 (Elberon-Price Hill), 35 (Warsaw-Price Hill), and 36 (Warsaw-Carson Street) were converted to bus operation with the latter 2 getting trolleybuses. All 3

March 25, 1807 The Swansea & Mumbles Railway begins the first railway passenger service in the world, using horse-drawn cars. The line had been built three years earlier to haul granite. It will

March 24, 1828 The Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (later PRR), the first to be owned by a state, is authorized. March 24, 1849 The Pittsburg & Steubenville Railroad (later PCC&StL) is chartered in

March 21, 1948 Baltimore PCC route 6 (Curtis Bay) was converted to bus operation. March 22, 1953 Cleveland's Superior Avenue trolley route, one of the first two to

March 21, 1837 Today and tomorrow, the Michigan Legislature will pass the Internal Improvements Act, authorizing the Central Railroad of Michigan (later MC) to build across the state. It will follow

March 20, 1955 Metropolitan Philadelphia Railway Association ran a PCC car fantrip using cars 2201 (ex-SLPS 1578) and 2251 (ex-KCPS 787), both refurbished and repainted by PTC but prior to their use