• regular streetcars. Montreal also used trolleybuses. Introduced in 1937, they were seen as having some advantages over streetcars. Unlike streetcars, they...
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    popular in the south in cities such as New Orleans, Louisiana. In many cities, streetcars drawn by a single animal were known as "bobtail streetcars" whether...
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  • apartment by riding in a streetcar on the Desire streetcar line. Tennessee Williams was living in an apartment on Toulouse Street in New Orleans’ French...
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    Quebec City tramway (1865–1948) (category Transport in Quebec City)
    Streetcars at Place D'Youville in 1938. Streetcars at Place D'Youville in 1944. Rails, Grande Allée, 1945. Tram 901 in 1947. Streetcars in Montreal "Transit...
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    Notre-Dame and Saint Jacques Streets. In 1953, the newly formed public Montreal Transportation Commission replaced streetcars with buses and proposed a single...
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    1886, the Montreal City Passenger Railway Company operated a small network of horse-drawn trams (also called streetcars in North America). In 1886, the...
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  • 16 and 17 streetcars on the west side. West Allis was served by the 10, 18 and 19 streetcars on the west side. Most of Montreal's streetcar suburbs feature...
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    List of PCC Streetcars in the 21st century The PCC streetcar club PCC Car—The Industry Saviour? The PCC Car—Not So Standard PCC streetcars in NYC Madrid...
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    Namur metro station was built in close proximity to the Blue Bonnets Raceway. The Montreal Tramways Company had run streetcars right into the race track site...
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    have re-introduced streetcars. In the latter half of the 19th century, transit systems were generally rail, first horse-drawn streetcars, and later electric...
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    Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was agricultural land prior to the arrival of streetcars in 1908. The inhabitants of the area were predominantly anglophone. The...
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    Ottawa Car Company (category Manufacturing companies based in Ottawa)
    stamps featuring Ottawa Car Company Streetcar, 1894, Saint John Railway Co. Car #40. Streetcars Small Peter Witt streetcars Snow sweepers Interurban railcars:...
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    neighbourhood and municipal electoral district in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the city’s Plateau-Mont-Royal borough. Since the...
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    Counties Railway ran interurban streetcars on the Northern shoulder of the bridge. The line connected Granby and Montreal, with a later branch serving Longueuil...
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  • Canadian Car and Foundry (category Manufacturing companies based in Montreal)
    Equipment were produced at Fort William, Ontario and railcars in Montreal and Amherst. Streetcars were manufactured between 1897 and 1913, however the company...
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  • Hawker Siddeley Canada (category Foundries in Canada)
    and manufactured railcars, subway cars, streetcars, aircraft engines and ships from the 1960s to 1980s. Founded in 1962 as the Canadian division of British...
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  • be called streetcars or trolleys in certain countries. These companies are, or at one time were, manufacturers of genuine trams/streetcars. Makers of...
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    streetcars. Peter Witt (Toronto streetcar) LM-33 – Russian version of the Peter Witt Birney Safety Car, an alternate contemporary car PCC streetcar,...
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    Connecticut Trolley Museum (category Streetcars in Connecticut)
    Springfield faced financial debts, the company went out of business. Their streetcars were brought to Piney Ridge and scrapped. By 1926, the track was gone...
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    (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lɔʁɑ̃] ) is a borough of the city of Montreal, Canada, located in the northern part of the island. Although it is no longer an...
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    Canadian Pacific Railway in 1878 and the arrival of electric streetcars in 1892 permitted the growth of Villeray. It was also in this era that the Italian...
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    Mont Royal, IPA: [mɔ̃ ʁwajal]) is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The city's name is thought...
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    The following is a list of tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems with their track length, track gauge,...
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  • Autoroute Décarie (French) between the Turcot and Décarie Interchanges in Montreal and the Laurentian Autoroute (English) or Autoroute des Laurentides (French)...
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    Halton County Radial Railway (category Streetcars in Canada)
    The Halton County Radial Railway is a working museum of electric streetcars, other railway vehicles, buses and trolleybuses. It is operated by the Ontario...
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    The Montreal and Southern Counties Railway Company (often abbreviated M&SCRC or M&SC) was an electric interurban streetcar line that served communities...
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    routes, and the McGill Street Terminal served the interurban streetcars of the Montreal and Southern Counties Railway. Making matters worse, the various...
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  • The timeline of Montreal history is a chronology of significant events in the history of Montreal, Canada's second-most populated city, with about 3.5...
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  • (London, Ontario) single truck electric streetcars - Montreal street railway companies "Railway Rolling Stock Industry in Canada". "Kitchener-Waterloo Street...
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    large streetcar systems. When these cities upgraded to new technology, they called it light rail to differentiate it from their existing streetcars since...
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