Pittsburgh Railways
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Pittsburgh Railways was one of the predecessors of Pittsburgh Regional Transit. It had 666 PCC cars, the third largest fleet in North America (after Toronto (745) and Chicago (683)). It had 68 streetcar routes, of which only three (until April 5, 2010, the 42 series, the 47 series, and 52) are used by the Port Authority as light rail routes. With the Port Authority's Transit Development Plan, many route names will be changed to its original, such as the 41D Brookline becoming the 39 Brookline. Many of the streetcar routes have been remembered in the route names of many Port Authority buses (e.g. 71 series).
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Headquarters | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Locale | Allegheny County and Washington County, Pennsylvania |
Dates of operation | 1902ā1964 |
Predecessor | Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad Consolidated Traction Company Southern Traction Company United Traction Company of Pittsburgh |
Successor | Port Authority of Allegheny County |
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Track gauge | 5 ft 2+1ā2 in (1,588 mm) Pennsylvania trolley gauge |
Length | 400 miles (640 km) in 1902 606 miles (975 km) in 1918 |
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