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Green Line, The by Terry Lehmann & Earl Clark Jr CERA Bulletin 134 CN&C w/DJ
The Green Line by Terry W Lehmann & Earl W Clark Jr
CERA Bulletin #134
Cincinnati Newport & Covington Railway
An illustrated history of public transit in Northern Kentucky
Hard Cover w/DJ
240 pages
Copyright 2000
CONTENTS
1 Origins of the Green Line: 1867-18897 A most remarkable bridge to Cincinnati ... The South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Company ... Horsecar Technology ... Consolidating the independent operators, and a rather large purchasing agent.
2 Electricity and Expansion: 1890-190619 A new technology and a new era ... The Cleveland Syndicate takes over ... the Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Railway uses an alias ... Hard times and expansion too ... All kinds of bridge problems ... into the 20th Century.
3 The Columbia Era: 1907-192953 The Green Line is sold again ... New streetcars, including the system's first double-truckers ... Downtown Cincinnati problems and the great Dixie Terminal... the CN&C grows to its greatest extent, despite a plague of competing buses.
4 A Decade of Change: 1930-193987 Depression and doubt ... crazy-quilt fares that made a game out of riding ... the Green Line gets into the bus business ... coping with the greatest flood in local history ... the nation's first interstate trolley-coach line.
5 The Green Line Goes to War: 1940-1945119 Dixie Traction, which is not an electric railway ... more competing bus lines bought up ... anatomy of a strike ... huge wartime demands on the system... the dash of the Greenhound, and an Ohio airport which wound up in Kentucky.
6 Optimism Renewed: 1946-1950 141 Green Line and the new metropolitan airport ... new buses and the switch to diesels ... the Green Line's Pennsylvania Connection ... the last streetcars in Northern Kentucky go out with a bang!
7 Down a Slippery Slope: 1951-1972177 David Ringo, the man who would parlay the CN&C into a nationwide transit empire ... more trolley-coaches, then fewer, and then none ... contraction, lost business and retrenchment ... optimism, then pessimism ... but hanging on.
8 TANK: a New Beginning: 1972 to 2000205 Voters approve a new transit authority ... going from Green to a rainbow... Dixie Terminal closed ... Ringo's old ATE management company goes global ...ridership on the upswingrail: could it be?
APPENDICES
Green Line, TANK Service Tables222-227
Green Line Streetcar Roster228
Dixie Traction Bus Roster229
Green Line Bus Roster230-231
TANK Bus Roster232
Bibliography 234-235
Car Drawings236-237
Index238-240
FOREWORD
THE CINCINNATI, Newport & Covington Railway Co. was not a major player in the realm of public transit. The Green Line, so named to distinguish it from the orange cars of the much larger Cincinnati Street Railway, was comprised of only 58 or so route miles and it rostered only 200 streetcars during the heyday of its rail operation.
Yet the CN&C was remarkable, if not downright unique, in its field. Consider the contrasts between old and new. It clung to the last two-man, single-truck, hand-braked cars in the United States. Inaugurated the nation's first interstate trolley-coach service. Ran transit buses over Greyhound's intercity routes during World War II. Barged into the air age by holding the franchise to exclusively serve the Greater Cincinnati Airport for more than 25 years. And formed the nucleus for what would become one of the nation's largest transit conglomerates: American Transportation Enterprises. This is a company that somehow managed to reach into the past and into the future simultaneously. It was a wondrous thing to behold.
Successor Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky is today ranked as one of the finest small transit systems in the U. S. It is the old Green Line brought up to date.
Both of us drew extensively on our own collections of Green Line records and photographs and conducted original research. We looked at miles of local newspaper microfilm and microfiche and all sorts of regulatory documents. But our effort would have surely missed the mark without the efforts of many other folks.
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