Cincinnati Streetcar Heritage

Kenneth C. Springirth

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Fonthill Media LLc
04 December 2017

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`Cincinnati Streetcar Heritage' is a photographic essay of the Cincinnati, Ohio, streetcar system. Cincinnati's first electric streetcar line was the conversion of the Mt. Adams & Eden Park Inclined Railway Company cable car line to electric operation in 1888, which became part of the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. in 1896.

Because of concern over corrosion of underground conduits and water pipes, Cincinnati's streetcar lines were required to have a double overhead wire within city limits. Cincinnati, along with Merrill, Wisconsin, and Havana, Cuba, were the only streetcar systems in North America with a double overhead wire system. Two open observation streetcars were placed in sightseeing service during 1939. The only Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) cars ever built with two trolley poles were operated in Cincinnati. Although Cincinnati's streetcars made their last run in 1951, the Toronto Transit Commission purchased 52 of Cincinnati's PCC cars with the last one taken out of service in 1982. `Cincinnati Streetcar Heritage' documents the city's streetcar era, including the Cincinnati Bell Connector streetcar line which opened in 2016, linking downtown Cincinnati with the Over the Rhine neighborhood.

By: Kenneth C. Springirth
Imprint: Fonthill Media LLc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 215mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781634990332
ISBN 10: 1634990331
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 04 December 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

KENNETH C. SPRINGIRTH, the author of 33 books on railroads and trolley car lines, has an interest in rail history as his father was a street car motorman in Philadelphia, and his grandfather was a street car motorman in Washington D.C. A native of Philadelphia, he commuted to Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University) in Philadelphia by trolley car, subway, and sometimes commuter rail graduating in 1962.