Johnstown Traction Company
Johnstown Traction Company (JTC) was a public transit system in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. For most of its existence it was primarily a street-railway system, but in later years also operated rubber-tired vehicles. JTC operated trolley (tram) service in Johnstown from February 23, 1910 to June 11, 1960. Johnstown was one of the last small cities to abandon trolley service in the United States.[1] Many of the 1920s-era cars went directly to museums; however, none of the 17 more modern PCC streetcars was saved. Efforts to sell the 16 then-surviving PCC cars intact were unsuccessful, and in 1962 they were cut up, but with many of their components being salvaged for sale to the Brussels, Belgium tram system,[2] reused in the last series of single PCC trams (7156–7171), which ran from 1970 until February 2010.[citation needed]
JTC's system also included electric trolley buses, the first route of which was opened on November 20, 1951.[3] Trolley bus service continued until 1967, the last day of electric service being November 11, 1967.[3] The transit system then used only motor buses, but retained the name Johnstown Traction Company (in which "traction" is a reference to electric vehicle propulsion). In 1976, the private JTC would become the CamTran public transit system.
Surviving JTC cars
- 350 Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
- 351 Market Street Railway (San Francisco)
- 352 National Capital Trolley Museum (destroyed by fire, September 28, 2003)
- 311, 355 Rockhill Trolley Museum
- 356, 357 Shore Line Trolley Museum
- 358 originally Stone Mountain, Georgia, then Trolley Museum of New York
- 362 Fox River Trolley Museum
See also
- Streetcars in Kenosha, Wisconsin – An ex-Toronto PCC car, in service on a heritage streetcar system here, wears the JTC paint scheme in tribute to Johnstown's streetcar system, which used similar PCC cars
References
- ↑ Middleton, William D. (1967). The Time of the Trolley, p. 190. Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 0-89024-013-2.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sebree, Mac; and Ward, Paul (1974). The Trolley Coach in North America, pp. 155–158. Los Angeles: Interurbans. LCCN 74-20367.
