Classic Trains – September 2019

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84 CLASSIC TRAINS FALL 2019


Car Stop


Cincinnati’s


adaptable


overhead


Cincinnati Street Railway used an unusual two-wire over-
head system, the result of a dispute with the local telephone
company over interference from stray return currents in the
rails; the second wire was for current return. This was of great
usefulness in converting lines to trackless trolley operation,
since no modification of the overhead was necessary. In this
March 5, 1950, view of Spring Grove Avenue from the east end
of the Western Hills Viaduct, a 1948 Marmon-Herrington
trolleybus working the 31-Crosstown line is followed by a
1923 Cincinnati Car Co. “curved-side” on the 18-North Fair-
mount route. The PCC car heading the opposite direction was
sold, along with its 51 sisters, to the Toronto Transportation
Commission later in 1950, leaving older cars to carry on un-
til the end of rail service in April 1951. Krambles-Peterson Archive
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