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- Kansas_City's_early_Streetcar_systems abstract "During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kansas City, Missouri, like most North American cities, authorized early Kansas City's early streetcar systems.All but five cities, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and New Orleans, replaced all their streetcars with buses.Kansas City once had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in North America, but the last of its 25 streetcar routes was shut down in 1957.The first streetcars introduced in Kansas City in 1870 were horse-powered.On some early routes the streetcars were propelled by latching on to underground cables, like San Francisco's cable cars.The city granted its first franchise to the Metropolitan Street Railway Company,owned by Thomas Corrigan.William Rockhill Nelson, publisher of the Kansas City Star, believed Corrigan was corrupt, and used his paper to lobby against renewing his franchise.By 1908 all but one of the routes had been converted to being propelled by electricity.When the Kansas City Public Service Company (KSPS) was created in 1925 it inherited over 700 streetcars that had been owned and operated by private companies.The streetcar routes operated by the KSPS also served commuters across the state line in Kansas City, Kansas.The KSPS planned to replace all its older streetcars with new, state-of-the-art PCC streetcars, an order that would have required 371 vehicles. Only 24 were delivered prior to World War II, which put a hiatus on new streetcar construction. The KSPS acquired 184 PCC vehicles.Well-known Kansas City developer Jesse C. Nichols was known for constructing streetcar lines to serve the new communities he built.".
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- Kansas_City's_early_Streetcar_systems subject Category:History_of_Kansas_City,_Missouri.
- Kansas_City's_early_Streetcar_systems comment "During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kansas City, Missouri, like most North American cities, authorized early Kansas City's early streetcar systems.All but five cities, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and New Orleans, replaced all their streetcars with buses.Kansas City once had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in North America, but the last of its 25 streetcar routes was shut down in 1957.The first streetcars introduced in Kansas City in 1870 were horse-powered.On some early routes the streetcars were propelled by latching on to underground cables, like San Francisco's cable cars.The city granted its first franchise to the Metropolitan Street Railway Company,owned by Thomas Corrigan.William Rockhill Nelson, publisher of the Kansas City Star, believed Corrigan was corrupt, and used his paper to lobby against renewing his franchise.By 1908 all but one of the routes had been converted to being propelled by electricity.When the Kansas City Public Service Company (KSPS) was created in 1925 it inherited over 700 streetcars that had been owned and operated by private companies.The streetcar routes operated by the KSPS also served commuters across the state line in Kansas City, Kansas.The KSPS planned to replace all its older streetcars with new, state-of-the-art PCC streetcars, an order that would have required 371 vehicles. ".
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