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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sun Sep 16 14:47:25 2012, in response to Re: Cleveland Red Line, posted by Easy on Sun Sep 16 14:26:57 2012. So the history is that what we now call the Red Line was planned in the 20s. When Cleveland Terminal was built, there were "bellmouths" for a number of projected rail lines. As one can see riding the Red, most of the route is surplus ROW along mainline RRs--some controlled in the 20s/30s by the same Van Sweringen brothers who built the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit. Their house of cards collapsed in the Depression and like the IND Second System, nothing was built. Cleveland found the money and got the first piece done in the early 50s, buying the blue PCC type cars seen in the video Jon linked. In that era, CTA cut 4 low volume branches but then completely rebuilt the Garfield Park L to become the Congress line (now Blue). So, yes, the 50s were not a good decade for transit as streetcars were abandoned all over and expansion stalled.For further history, Invisible Giants by Herbert Harwood on the Vans and CERA Bulletin 108 for an early 60s view of Cleveland Transit. Cleveland does, however have a claim to fame--first US city w/ rapid Transit into the airport (1968). |
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