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	The Shore Line Trolley Museum: Newark PCC 27 arrives at the museum
		Twin Cities Rapid Transit, which operated routes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, was a late-comer to the PCC game.
		Alas, the tenure of the PCC in the Twin Cities was brief.
		The primary modifications done by Shaker Heights were the replacement of the window glazing with lexan, repainting, and the addition of a tripper mechanism (Shaker cars share trackage in Cleveland with rapid transit trains and must be equipped with wayside signal trippers similar to those used in the NYC subway system).
	www.bera.org /articles/newpcc27.html (1395 words)

	Twin City Rapid Transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It existed under the TCRT name from a merger in the 1890s until it was purchased in 1962.
		TCRT also expanded into the region around White Bear Lake, and company-owned attractions were built in that area.
		Carl Pohlad, who became the owner of the Minnesota Twins in 1984, was the eventual successor of Fred Ossanna as head of Twin City Lines in the 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twin_City_Rapid_Transit (2979 words)

	Minnesota Transportation Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Twin City Lines had built most of its own streetcars throughout the company's history, but a number of faster streamlined vehicles were purchased in the late 1940s to better compete with the popularity of the automobile.
		It served in the Twin Cities until it was sold in 1953 in a batch of 30 streetcars that was sent to the Newark City Subway.
		The streetcars used in the Twin Cities in the early 20th century were “gate cars” which used metal gates on the rear of the car both for embarking and disembarking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minnesota_Transportation_Museum (1751 words)

	Twin City Rapid Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Twin City Rapid Transit Company (TCRT), also known as Twin City Lines (TCL), was a business that operated streetcars, taxicabs, buses, and steamboats in the area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
		The rails of the Twin Cities were upgraded to the most expensive track in the country, running US$6060,000 per mile.
		From 1906 to 1926, TCRT experimented with “streetcar boats.” Officially known as Express Boats, they were steam-powered vessels with designs reminiscent of the streetcars of the day.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/twin_city_rapid_transit (2650 words)

	Hiawatha Line
		It is operated by the Metro Transit division of the Metropolitan Council.
		The destruction of the old railway system operated by Twin City Rapid Transit has largely been attributed to actions by General Motors, a company that had a vested interest in seeing buses and automobiles gain greater popularity.
		A few people who oversaw the end of TCRT came from National City Lines, and the Twin City trolleys were replaced by GM buses, but such connections are relatively weak in this case.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hi/hiawatha_line.html (565 words)

	TWIN CITY RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY: An inventory of Its Corporate Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
		The Twin City Rapid Transit Company (a New Jersey corporation) was incorporated in 1891 as a holding company, with the MSR and the SPCR as wholly-owned operating subsidiaries.
		Twin City Rapid Transit Company changed its name in 1962 to Minnesota Enterprises Incorporated, and in 1970 this firm became MEI Corporation.
		MEI left the transit business in 1970 with the takeover of its Twin City Lines subsidiary by the Twin Cities Area Metropolitan Transit Commission, an agency created by the Minnesota Legislature and charged with maintaining and improving public mass transit in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00207.html (3193 words)

	Encyclopedia: Twin City Rapid Transit
		Twin City Rapid Transit logo made in The Gimp by User:Mulad File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
		Some improvements were underway by 1999, and in that year city voters also approved major changes in the organizational structure of the cityâs transportation departments.
		The most serious social problems facing the city are not unique to San Francisco, but some have taken on greater dimensions in the city than they have elsewhere.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Twin-City-Rapid-Transit (656 words)

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		One of the first substantial cities in the state, Stillwater is now a Victorian jewel that climbs the bluff overlooking the beautiful St. Croix River, 20 miles east of St. Paul.
		In 1976 the Metropolitan Transit Commission, who had purchased TCRT in 1970, donated GMC model 5105 #1399, the last of the buses that displaced the streetcars in 1954.
		The City of Excelsior expanded it municipal dock at the foot of Water Street to accommodate the Minnehaha.
	www.mtmuseum.org /history.html (6360 words)

	Metroblogging Minneapolis: A better mass transit system (that we already had...)
		The streetcars were a symbol of the boom that the Twin Cities were experiencing at the end of the 19th century: wherever new tracks were built, new land was developed, and the cities expanded.
		Twin City Rapid Transit Company changed its name in 1962 to Minnesota Enterprises Incorporated, and in 1970 this firm became MEI Corporation.
		MEI left the transit business in 1970 with the takeover of its Twin City Lines subsidiary by the Twin Cities Area Metropolitan Transit Commission, an agency created by the Minnesota Legislature and charged with maintaining and improving public mass transit in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
	minneapolis.metblogs.com /archives/2005/10/where_all_the_s.phtml (835 words)

	TWIN CITY TRANSIT HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The TCRT numbers are from a map from 1954, after the last streetcars were replaced with buses.
		After new management took over the Twin City Rapid Transit Co. in 1949, the system underwent perhaps the most rapid conversion from streetcars to buses in the country.
		Although the Twin City Rapid Transit Co. chairman was later convicted and sentenced to prison, for illegally profiting from the conversion to buses.
	members.aol.com /chirailfan/mspdate.html (1280 words)

	Charles City Western
		Charles City already was served by the Illinois Central and the St. Paul (Milwaukee Road later).
		The line was acquired by the Iowa Terminal RR on December 31, 1963, and was operated as the Charles City Division.
		In 1928 it was rebuilt as locomotive 801, Class A. In January, 1949 it was sold to the Charles City Western as 303.
	donsdepot.donrossgroup.net /dr271.htm (709 words)

	The Conspiracy Revisited Rebutted
		That year, a former high-ranking executive of National City Lines - NCL, the bus conversion outfit GM created - embarked with mobsters on an spree of corruption in the Twin Cities.
		People of the Twin Cities footed the bill, one way or another, for the $27.5 million dollar cost of the bus conversion.
		Transit authorities were demanding more innovative buses than the standardized product built at the firm's huge plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and European and American competitors were offering them.
	www.erha.org /plot2.htm (1619 words)

	City Pages - Letters to the Editor
		The federal funding bill that was passed this year authorizes $120 million for "Twin Cities transitways." The wording does not specify "light rail transit." Building LRT will prevent us from developing the best transit system for the money.
		Light rail transit is a more neighborhood- and environment-friendly alternative to the automobile (and in some ways the bus), an alternative that is long overdue.
		It is a common argument by transit phobics like the "malevolently smiling" Wendell Cox that the Twin Cities don't have the density to support transit.
	www.citypages.com /letters/detail.asp?LID=1388 (3497 words)

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		In Twin Cities by Trolley, John Diers and Aaron Isaacs offer a rolling snapshot of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the 1880s to the 1950s, when the streetcar system shaped the growth and character of the entire metropolitan area.
		Recounting the rise and fall of the TCRT, Twin Cities by Trolley explores the history, organization, and operations of the streetcar system, including life as a streetcar operator and the technology, design, and construction of the cars.
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	beer.knowledgebasepower.com /beer/motor-city-honey-porter.php (1972 words)

	Metropolitan Council Directions Newsletter \| Transit\| Saying goodbye to the Snelling bus garage
		Current and former employees and their families are invited to attend an open house at Snelling on Sunday, Sept. 30, to tour the building's former operating areas and reminisce through the facility's storied history.
		All Twin Cities streetcars were locally built until 1946, when TCRT purchased 141 new streetcars from outside vendors and Snelling became a maintenance facility.
		In 1953, when TCRT converted to an all-bus system, streetcars were sold to Mexico City, Cleveland and Newark.
	www.metrocouncil.org /Directions/transit/transit_snellingstation.htm (296 words)

	Newark City Subway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Newark City Subway is operated by New Jersey Transit, a state agency that operates local public transportation throughout the state of New Jersey.
		Until 24 August 2001, the City Subway operated PCC streetcars built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1946-49 for the Twin City Rapid Transit Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
		In between, NJ Transit upgraded the route in preparation for the new light-rail vehicles, replacing the old style trolley wire with modern catenary overhead.
	web.presby.edu /~jtbell/transit/Newark/Subway (1078 words)

	Minnehaha (Steamboat)
		This restored steamboat was originally one of a fleet of vessels that extended the streetcar lines of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, out into Lake Minnetonka.
		Built in 1905 by the Twin City Rapid Transit Company to serve new communities around the lake shore, the boats were designed to resemble streetcars, with sleek torpedo sterns, sharp bows, upper deck benches, and cane cabin seats.
		As the automobile became the favored mode of transportation, ridership on the boats declined, and they were scuttled in 1926 in the deeper waters of the lake.
	www.loc.gov /bicentennial/propage/MN/mn-3_h_ramstad1.html (183 words)

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		Even as late as 1949, the Minneapolis-St. Paul electric railway system (Twin City Rapid Transit, or TCRT) was extensive, providing connectivity via high-quality public transport over 440 miles of track linking Minneapolis with St. Paul and numerous suburban and rural parts of the metro area.
		Yet, as in many other US cities, Minneapolis's one-sided subsidization of roadways – leaving the transit system to fend for itself – belied a public policy dedicated to motorizing the public and bestowing priority and transportation supremacy upon the automobile.
		Meanwhile, the local political establishment basically sat on its hands and watched as the entire electric rapid transit system was destroyed.
	www.lightrailnow.org /facts/fa_photos_hist_min_menu.htm (309 words)

	Fred Ossanna - TheBestLinks.com - August 6, Bus, General Motors, Lawyer, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fred Albin Ossanna was a Minnesota lawyer who oversaw the dismantling of the Minneapolis-St. Paul streetcar system as head of Twin City Rapid Transit Company in the 1950s.
		In a period of 22 months ending in June 1954, rails were removed from city streets where trolleys once traveled to be replaced by General Motors buses.
		Ossanna and associate Barney Larrick were both convicted of fraud on August 6, 1960 for activities that had taken place during the conversion from streetcars to buses.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Fred_Ossanna.html (286 words)

	Metro Council Directions Newsletter \|Snelling Transit Garage
		Metro Transit is demolishing Snelling Garage, the venerable 95-year-old building it said goodbye to last year.
		Working toward that goal, Metro Transit, the City of St. Paul, residents and local business owners will jointly identify a strategy that integrates transit, transportation and land use to complement and enhance the Midway neighborhood.
		Paul Mayor Randy Kelly pledged to work with transit planners and the community to jointly develop the prime spot to support transit and reflect character and needs of Midway.
	www.metrocouncil.org /Directions/transit/transit_snellingdemo.htm (379 words)

	Canada Line \| FAQs
		Recognizing the importance of working collaboratively with the Cities, the CLCO Board invites one senior representative from the City of Vancouver and one from the City of Richmond to attend the meetings of the CLCO Board in a non-participating (non-voting) capacity.
		The private sector is being involved in the Canada Line Project to achieve the best transit solution for the corridor at the most competitive price and to maximize risk transfer away from the public sector while protecting the public's investment over the long-term.
		Work with the City and the community as design and construction planning proceeds to develop a process to preserve and enhance the Cambie Boulevard trees and land-scape where possible.
	www.canadaline.ca /aboutFAQ.asp (7128 words)

	Bridge No. 92247 - Historic Significance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first Melan-system bridge was built in Rock Rapids, Iowa, that same year by William S. Hewett & Company of Minneapolis.
		Bridge No. 92247 was built to carry Lexington Avenue over the tracks and Bridge No. L-5853 was built to provide a pedestrian crossing for passengers at the new station to be built the next year at the bridges southeast corner.
		The siting of the bridges was significant not only because of the location of the railway and station, but also because the city was developing this area at Lexington Parkway as a new and improved park entrance.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/places/nationalregister/bridges/nrra92247/sign.html (423 words)

	Mound and Minnetonka area History and Postcards. sjka1016
		From the limited information I have access to I have determined that the Twin City Rapid Transit TCRT started operations in 1884. It's lines extended from Stillwater on the east side, to Lake Minnetonka on the West.
		This is the car and boat time table for Twin City Lines effective June 14, 1908.
		While cities and towns have usually had good street systems within their boundaries to enhance commerce, very few of these streets extended out very far.
	members.fortunecity.com /moundmohawk/pc/sjka1016.html (616 words)

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