Remembering Cincinnati’s old streetcars as new ones take to the streets
Governing Magazine shows one of Cincinnati's defunct inclines carrying streetcars up and down one of the city's bare hills to juxtapose news of the new Cincinnati Streetcar debuting this September.
A small blog post at Governing Magazine shows one of Cincinnati’s defunct inclines carrying two streetcars up and down one of the city’s bare hills under the headline “Remembering Cincinnati’s Old Streetcars.”
Cincinnati will debut its new streetcar line in September, the blog post notes, the first time streetcars have carried passengers here since 1951.
“Built to accommodate a growing population in the mid-19th century, the electric system ran smoothly but for one problem: It didn’t have enough power to get up and down the city’s hills,” David Kidd writes. “The solution was four cable-operated inclined railways that worked like elevators. Streetcars drove onto a platform and were simply carried up and down the hills.”
Can anyone suggest which hill and incline is pictured?
Read the full Governing Magazine story here.
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