A CSR trolley bus and two streetcars during the last month of streetcar service, in 1951
Overview
Headquarters
Cincinnati, Ohio
Dates of operation
1859–1952
Successor
Cincinnati Transit Commission
Mount Adams Incline, c. 1900CSR's streetcars used double – instead of single – trolley poles, almost uniquely among North American streetcar systems.
Cincinnati Street Railway (CSR) was the public transit operator in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1859 to 1952. The company ceased streetcar operations and was renamed Cincinnati Transit Company.[1]
The company was founded in 1859 and was one of several operators. The Cincinnati Consolidated Railway merged with CSR in 1880:
Passenger Railroad of Cincinnati 1859–1873 – merged with CCR
Route Nine Street Railroad 1859–1873 – merged with CCR
Pendleton Street Railroad 1860–1873 – merged with East and West Street Railroad Company and finally with CCR in 1873
Cincinnati, Walnut Hills, Avondale and Pleasant Ridge Street Railway 1874–1880 – merged with CSR
Storrs and Sedamsvill Street Railroad 1878–1880
Cincinnati and Clifton Incline Plane Railroad 1876–1880
Rees McDuffie 1884–1885
Cumminsville Street Passenger Railroad ?-1889
Walnut Hills and Cincinnati Street Railway 1872–1880
Mount Adams and Eden Park Incline Railway 1876–1881
Mount Auburn Cable Railway 1887–1896
Mount Auburn Street Railway 1864–1873
Cincinnati and Columbia Street Railway 1866–1896
Some of the city's streetcars, namely A9-10 PCC were sold to the Toronto Transit Commission upon abandonment.
The company began subway construction from 1920 to 1925, but the route was abandoned due to lack of money.
^Cincinnati, University of (30 August 2019). "Benjamin Gettler Papers".
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