Cincinnati Street

Company History: The CSR was established in 1859 and would become one of more than a dozen streetcar lines in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1880, they began acquiring other lines in the city culminating with the Mount Auburn Cable Railway and Cincinnati & Columbia Street Railway in 1896. CSR was unusual in that they used a 2-wire-2-trolley-poll system. This was due to a conflict with a local phone company who claimed the return current in the rails was causing interference to the phone service. The conversion from streetcar to trolley bus was made much easier by the pre-existing double wire system. The rail service lasted until 1951. The following year, the operation was renamed Cincinnati Transit Commission.

Successor/Parent History: The Cincinnati Transit Company (or Cincinnati Transit, Inc., abbreviated CT) was the public transit operator in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, from 1952 to 1973. It began operation on December 30, 1952, and replaced the Cincinnati Street Railway. The CSR had ceased streetcar operations in 1951, so CT provided only bus transit in the city. Initially, this included trolley bus service inherited from CSR, but trolley bus service in Cincinnati ended on June 18, 1965.[1] CTC sold 15 Marmon-Herrington TC-48 trolleybuses to the Toronto Transit Commission in 1953. In 1973, the company was renamed Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA).

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