Phoenix Street Railway
The Phoenix Street Railway provided streetcar service in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, from 1888 to 1948. The motto was "Ride a Mile and Smile the While." History The line was founded in 1887 by Moses Hazeltine Sherman and used horse-drawn cars. The system opened on 11 January, 1888. Many of these lines were built to subdivisions that were being developed by Sherman's land development interests. Beginning in 1893, electric streetcars were slowly introduced to the system. All of the lines provided fully electric service by 1895, with the exception of the Grand Avenue Line which did not receive electric service until 1909. The service was popular with the locals and was partly responsible for the growth patterns observed in the early history of Phoenix. In 1911, the first of several planned interurban lines opened to Glendale; additional lines were planned but never built to Tempe, Mesa, and Scottsdale. The system reached its height in the 1920s with several line extensions ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Phoenix Streetcar Number 116 METRO Light Rail Grand Opening
Phoenix most often refers to: * Phoenix (mythology), an immortal bird in ancient Greek mythology * Phoenix, Arizona, the capital of the U.S. state of Arizona and the most populous state capital in the United States Phoenix may also refer to: Greek mythology * Phoenix (son of Amyntor), king of the Dolopians who raises Achilles * Phoenix (son of Agenor), brother or father of Europa * Phoenix, a chieftain who came as guardian of the young Hymenaeus when they joined Dionysus in his campaign against India (see Phoenix (Greek myth)) Places Canada * Phoenix, Alberta, a ghost town * Phoenix, British Columbia, a ghost town United States * Phoenix, Arizona, capital of Arizona and most populous city in the state * Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona * Phoenix, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Phoenix, Illinois, a village * Phoenix, Louisiana, an unincorporated community * Phoenix, Maryland, an unincorporated community * Phoenix, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Phoenix, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Phoenix Trolley Museum
The Phoenix Trolley Museum, incorporated as the Arizona Street Railway Museum, is a railway museum established in 1975, with an emphasis on preserving historical street cars in Phoenix, Arizona, US. The museum is "dedicated to the preservation of original Phoenix trolley cars and memorabilia, and to showing their place in the history of America's fifth largest city." Overview The museum was located next to the Margaret Hance Deck Park on Interstate 10 in downtown Phoenix until December 2017. In 2016, the City of Phoenix declined to renew the museum's lease for another five-year period, and the Hance Park location was closed. In 2018, the museum relocated to a site in Phoenix's historic Grand Avenue Arts and Small Business district, along one of the earliest trolley lines in the city. The museum's volunteer board of directors is developing plans to renovate the existing vintage structure to house exhibits and offices, and to construct a new facility to house and refurbish trolleys ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Defunct Public Transport Operators In The United States
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Defunct may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state. When used in a biological sense, it means imperfect or rudimentary when comp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Transportation In Phoenix, Arizona
Transportation in Phoenix, Arizona is primarily via private cars. Public transport is run under the brand Valley Metro, and consists of buses, light rail, and a streetcar system. Roads Phoenix auto traffic depends on both freeways and surface streets. Freeways fall under the auspices of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Phoenix ranks first in the nation in the quality of its urban freeways, and the state as a whole ranks first in the nation in the quality of bridges. While being the fifth most populous city in the nation, Phoenix's freeways do not suffer from the same type of congestion seen in other large cities. In fact, in a recent study, there is not a single stretch of freeway in Phoenix ranked in the 100 worst freeways for either congestion or unreliability. Part of the reason for this is the extensive freeway system in the city, due to most of that system being funded by local, rather than federal funds, through a half-cent general sales tax measure approved b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Defunct Arizona Railroads
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Arizona Highways
''Arizona Highways'' is a magazine that contains travelogues and artistic photographs related to the U.S. state of Arizona. It is published monthly in Phoenix by a unit of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Background The magazine began in July 1921 by the Arizona Highway Department (now the Arizona Department of Transportation) as a 10-page pamphlet designed to promote "the development of good roads throughout the state." Publication of the pamphlet ended on December 30, 1922, after nine issues. The publication was relaunched on April 15, 1925, as a regular magazine. In addition to the engineering articles, cartoons and travelogues were also included in the early issues. Over the next two decades the magazine reduced, and then stopped, inclusion of the road engineering articles and dedicated itself to the present format of travel tales, historical stories, and humor about the state of Arizona (including stories about Arizona's contribution to the history ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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KNXV-TV
KNXV-TV (channel 15) is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, affiliated with ABC. It was established in 1979 as the Phoenix area's second independent station with part-time subscription television programming from ON TV. It was originally owned by the New Television Corporation, which had attempted to set up the station for nearly five years prior to its launch. In 1985, Scripps-Howard Broadcasting, the broadcast division of the E. W. Scripps Company, acquired KNXV-TV. Channel 15 affiliated with Fox in 1986 and became the leading independent in the market, one of Fox's strongest affiliates. In 1994, Fox announced a multi-city affiliation agreement with New World Communications which included Phoenix's then- CBS affiliate, KSAZ-TV, and mostly CBS affiliates in several other major markets. CBS expressed interest in affiliating with Scripps's ABC affiliates in other cities and Scripps used this as leverage to force ABC to move its Phoenix affiliation from ma ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Phoenix, Arizona Public Transport
Transportation in Phoenix, Arizona is primarily via private cars. Public transport is run under the brand Valley Metro, and consists of buses, light rail, and a streetcar system. Roads Phoenix auto traffic depends on both freeways and surface streets. Freeways fall under the auspices of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Phoenix ranks first in the nation in the quality of its urban freeways, and the state as a whole ranks first in the nation in the quality of bridges. While being the fifth most populous city in the nation, Phoenix's freeways do not suffer from the same type of congestion seen in other large cities. In fact, in a recent study, there is not a single stretch of freeway in Phoenix ranked in the 100 worst freeways for either congestion or unreliability. Part of the reason for this is the extensive freeway system in the city, due to most of that system being funded by local, rather than federal funds, through a half-cent general sales tax measure approved b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Metro Light Rail (Arizona)
Valley Metro Rail is a light rail system serving the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, USA. The network, which is part of the Valley Metro public transit system, began operations on December 27, 2008. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . In the years since it opened in 2008, the system has undergone six expansions (including the infill station at 50th Street/Washington and the Valley Metro Streetcar), with two more scheduled. Extensions are underway into West Phoenix to the Arizona State Capitol and onwards to Desert Sky Mall, both of which were expanded due to obtaining funding under the Proposition 104 sales tax increase. Current system Lines In Valley Metro terminology, common with most other metro systems, a ''line'' is a named service, defined by a route and set of stations served by trains on that route. (The word does not refer to a physical rail corridor, as it does in New York City Subway nomenclature.) History Backgroun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Town Tramway Systems In The United States
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. ''System'' here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating companies. Middleton, William D. (1967). ''The Time of the Trolley'', pp. 78–79. Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing. . Like other country-wide lists indexed at List of town tramway systems, this list includes past and present systems. For lists of active systems, see: * Light rail in the United States * List of United States light rail systems by ridership * List of rail transit systems in the United States, which also includes subway/metro and commuter rail systems. In the state-by-state tables below: * A diamond (♦) symbol denotes a system that operates or operated in the same area as another independent system. * Names and cities of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Heritage Railroads In The United States
This is a list of heritage railroads in the United States; there are currently no such railroads in two U.S. states, Mississippi and North Dakota. Heritage railroads by state Alabama * Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, Shelby & Southern Railroad and Calera & Shelby Railroad * North Alabama Railroad Museum, Mercury and Chase Railroad * Wales West Light Railway Alaska * Tanana Valley Railroad Museum in Pioneer Park, Fairbanks, Pioneer Park (1899 engine) * White Pass and Yukon Route Arizona * Arizona Railway Museum (No excursions listed) * Arizona State Railroad Museum (In planning stages) * Arizona Street Railway Museum (Phoenix Trolley Museum) * Grand Canyon Railway * McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale, Arizona, Scottsdale * Old Pueblo Trolley * Superstition Narrow Gauge Railroad * Verde Canyon Railroad Arkansas * Arkansas and Missouri Railroad * Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway * Fort Smith Trolley Museum * Metro Streetcar California * Angels Flight * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Defunct Arizona Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Arizona. Class I Railroads * BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Shortline and Terminal Railroads * Apache Railway (APA) * Arizona and California Railroad (ARZC) * Arizona Central Railroad (AZCR) * Arizona Eastern Railway (AZER) * Copper Basin Railway The Copper Basin Railway is an List of Arizona railroads, Arizona short-line railroad that operates from a connection with the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) at Magma to Winkelman, Arizona, Winkelman, in of length. The railroad also has a branch ... (CBRY) * Port of Tucson Railroad (POT) * Kingman Terminal Railroad (KGTR) * San Manuel Arizona Railroad (SMA) * San Pedro Valley Railroad (SPVR) Passenger Railroads * Amtrak (AMTK): ''Southwest Chief'', ''Sunset Limited'', ''Texas Eagle'' * Valley Metro Rail * Tempe Streetcar * Sun Link * Old Pueblo Trolley Heritage and Scenic Railroads * Grand Canyon Railway (GCRY) * Old Pueblo Trolley * Verde Canyon Railroad Ind ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |