Pittsburgh streetcar system map, 1954 Size:24x36 (None of these attempts were

(None of these attempts were successful

and long overdue

I've used the MTA's modern color scheme

financed with private money

Pittsburgh streetcar system map, 1954 Size:24x36 (None of these attempts werePittsburgh faced the same pressures as other cities after World War II: suburbanization, urban renewal, and expressways. Unusually, the metropoliss transit operator, Pittsburgh Railways, had chosen to go all in on modernizing its streetcar system instead of introducing buses wholesale. Over 600 state of the art streetcars operated on Pittsburghs streets at this time. But it was not to last: the streetcar network had suffered from poor maintenance, and