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The QLINE (originally known as M-1 Rail by its developers) is a 3.3-mile-long (5.3 km) streetcar system in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Opened on May 12, 2017, it connects Downtown Detroit with Midtown and New Center, running along Woodward Avenue (M-1) for its entire route. [4] The system is operated by M-1 Rail, a nonprofit organization. [6]
First interurban cars on the Detroit, Almont and Northern Railroad, Almont, Michigan, July 1, 1914. The Detroit United Railway was a transport company which operated numerous streetcar and interurban lines in southeast Michigan. Although many of the lines were originally built by different companies, they were consolidated under the control of ...
The Jefferson Avenue line streetcar line was converted to buses in 1954, then the Michigan Avenue in line 1955. The days of PCC service on Gratiot Avenue were numbered as construction of the Edsel Ford Expressway inched closer to Gratiot, the DSR refused the option to operate the PCC streetcars over the new expressway. Thus, Gratiot Avenue PCC ...
DETROIT, MI — Detroit residents will be able to hop on a QLine streetcar for free this weekend. Grand opening festivities for the Woodward Avenue trolley system get underway at 9 a.m. at Grand ...
In mid-December 1893, the main streetcar line was electrified by the DCRC. [87] In 1901, the various lines throughout the city were consolidated as the Detroit United Railway. [88] Detroit took control of the Detroit Unified Railway on May 15, 1922; afterwards, the streetcar system became the city's Department of Street Railways.
Detroit’s streetcars are likely to look a bit different in coming months. ... The loan for construction of the 3.3-mile rail line on Woodward Avenue, originally for $10 million, dates to 2014 ...
Century-Old Streetcar Tracks Uncovered Below Rochester's Main Street - Rochester-Rochester Hills, MI - The tracks were part of the Detroit United Railway, and what is now downtown Rochester was a ...
North America's first streetcar lines opened in 1832 from downtown New York City to Harlem by the New York and Harlem Railroad, in 1834 in New Orleans, and in 1849 in Toronto along the Williams Omnibus Bus Line. These streetcars used horses and sometimes mules. Mules were thought to give more hours per day of useful transit service than horses ...