Cleveland Railway Company

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A PCC streetcar in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1950s

The Cleveland Railway Company was the public transit operator in Cleveland, Ohio from 1910-1942.

Transit operations were later passed over to the Cleveland Transit System, the precusor to the current Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. The company owned a fleet of PCC streetcars.

Though National City Lines never owned the system in Cleveland, General Motors did negotiate the sale of buses to the city - resulting in the shut down of the streetcar system. In Cleveland complaints were made to the FBI after the mayor and city councillors were seen driving around in new General Motors cars. Mayor Raymond T. Miller did receive a new car within a month of GM winning the contract for new buses. The FBI refused to investigate based on high profile nature of the people targeted. The Cleveland streetcars were sold to the Toronto Transit Commission where they remained in service for 30 years, until 1982. Others were sold to the Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway Company.

[edit] Fleet

St. Louis Car Company PCC A11
Marmon-Herrington TC48-T5 and TC44-T7 trolley bus

[edit] See also

National City Lines - A company owned by gas and car companies (including General Motors that targeted streetcar systems for shutdown.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy