Kansas City Streetcars their Beginning and end The K.C. Shuffle Bennie Moten & his K.C. Orch
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2010
- Kansas City streetcars from the early 1900's to their end 6-23-1957. Kansas City had one of the finest streetcar systems in the U.S. covering many miles in the city. The city sadly ended their service on 6-23-1957. Streetcars were introduced to Kansas City in1870. The PCC type streetcars began roaming Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas in 1941 and forever dramatically changed the local "Street Scene." Before the arrival of the PCC type cars, the average age of the traditional trolley cars operating on the Kansas City Public Service was thirty-two years. The new PCC cars brought Kansas City streets out of the "Cowboy" era and into the "Space" age. The sleek new aerodynamic style of the PCC cars matched that of the popular sporty Detroit automobiles. The city is now trying to bring back some type of rail system, but it can never match what they once had.
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It’s crazy that the new streetcar stop for Union Station now is about where the old one was. Standing there waiting for my streetcar and then looking at the photo of the old streetcar stopping there, right where I was standing was crazy.
I use to work down town K.C.Mo for about 12yrs.I first worked at Katz drug store.Then later on in yrs.worked at Macy's. I road the buses all time.Them were good times back then. I moved away 34yrs.ago.
Excellent pictures of streetcars and the stores that were there at the time. Great K.C. jazz by our own Benny Moten, also. I will show to our 95 yo Mom. Wasn't there are streetcar barn at Indep Ave and Van Brunt? At 2:00 min. you see beautiful Jesserich building that the owners will probably demolish in the future.
There are six miles of flat trail converted from the bed of the old Country Club Trolley Line ... The trolly trail, heavily used, is in the Brookside Waldo area around 74th & Wornall.
Very good work.
excellent fotos and music !
Kansas City has streetcars again and they are free to ride, for now. They currently run from the City Market area to Union Station with plans to extend them further south.
It’s strange seeing the street car at 2:15, knowing they are literally doing construction for the same thing in 2023. These old kc videos are so nostalgic, sad we’ve gotten rid of so much history.
Great video !! I love the music and the pictues !! So nice. I have a Trolley museum about 4 miles from here in East Haven CT. I love the place !!
I would love to see streetcars running through the city again, and maybe in the suburbs of Metro Kansas City.
I just thought of a decent line Overland Park could propose that would run down metcalf and connect OP to downtown.
@@RyanValizan thats what it needs, OP is just a start ,lets talk Grandview, Blue Springs, Lenexa, Olatha ETC.
Wish we still had those street cars ! It was such a part of KC ! What was up with the city to end it in 1957 !!??!! So sad. Perfect music. Thanks ... really loved this one !
Judging by the advertisement on the buildings, looks like the Rothschilds pulled out of KC.
Choo choo! I'm a train and I approve this video ! :)
Thanks so much for showing these KC streetcars. I rode them as a boy! Now we "may" get a 5-mile line from River Quay (sic) to Downtown in 2015? There was a plan to use regular railroads for passenger service in 1990! Like all the "plans" it sits in a file cabinet at City Hall!
How's that new streetcar system working out now for K.C?
Thanks again : Always a treat.
On one video I saw an Electric Freight Locomotive pulling standard gauge boxcars using part of the Kansas City Street Railway. When some of the PCC's were sold to Philadelphia,Philly must have had to widen the trucks from 4-foot 81/2-inches to Pennsylvania gauge,which is 5-foot 21/2-inches.
My family moved to K.C. in Sept. 57, and I don't know if they were trying some of the street cars out to sell but I saw some of them running after the 6-23-57 date. I remember them running down 31st St. and sparks coming of the contact on top of the street car. It was sure along time ago and I was young but some things you never forget.
the truth is that Clay Chastain (city council member) owns the concrete company that is installing the new streetcar tracks. to my knowlege,he has never proposed anything to" improve" the city that didn't require a lot of concrete
Neat to see this video and how the street car system was. I laughed when I saw Wornall Rd. Its one of the main streets I use.
yea, those rails between Wornall and Rockhill are unmistakable
those are some great pictures of kansas city, i notice that landmarks in the distance are things that are still standing but the buildings in the forefront are less likely to be still standing. another thing that i notice is that the current trolley cars they have put in place go to the same area. essentially, the streetcars fail in that they don't go to places that people need to be. the outcome is that it keeps inner city people in the city and not to the job markets that they need to get to. it keeps poor people poor. is there any question why kansas city is a bloodbath.
Thanks agalin
Well, we got 'em back but it's gonna be a long time before it becomes more than a formality,
Thanks: MY Brain needd this .
Where can we find more pictures?
This is really great! Thanks for posting it! It's been a while since I was back in KC so correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they turn one of those tracks into a walking path?
Yes they did.
there is a walk path that crosses 85th st just west of main
@Dayniac4324 I believe they thought that buses could maneuver around through traffic problems better. If there was an accident etc., the streetcars just had to sit and wait it out, where buses could just drive around it, and could also easily change routes.
Actually it was due to expense, and the fact that people were moving to the suburbs, and ridership was declining, stores were closing, and by the late 60's everything in the city changed for the worst as it did in many U.S cities, they declined and suburbia flourished. Now it's turning around again and the younger people are wanting to live in the city and enjoy a more dense living style with public transportation. The city now has a new streetcar, and plans to expand it, the renovation of older buildings into apartments and condos along with new construction has gone off the chart in the last few years, it's too bad they got rid of one of the best streetcar systems in the country, they'll never get that back again. It's a new city now for a different generation. ruclips.net/video/5fQ7bDRZyp8/видео.html
There were three problems why removing them made sense in the 1940s and 1950s. 1. busses were cheaper to run by a wide margin. 2. the city mandated street repairs around the lines to the streetcar companies and with busses they just used the roads. 3. busses followed the population in an era of white flight
White flight? In 1957?
Kansas City, Missouri is the cultural capital of the US in between Chicago and San Francisco. Culture is one great part of the mix that makes KCMO so great. The kicker is that KCMO is inexpensive all the while having world class amenities.
NIce videos which would be even better if the titles were more legible and at the bottom of the pictures.
I agree but I hadn't much experience at making videos when I made this.
Not only for vacationing people, but for kids underage to be driving and seniors.
Really wish they had left the street cars in. MIght have been an attraction like in San Francisco. They still have street cars. and they make a mint.....on vacationing people year round.
Maybe if gas goes up to $5 a gallon or more, we may see a comeback! We can only hope.
@sfkstater I agree
Now we are faced with putting in more than a million dollars in transportation costs for to get to KCK and putting in new Trains. We must have missed the boat or something.
@desoto1961 Cool. Somday i might go there.
@maynardcat I suppose that makes sense... but its a shame. It might have evolved into another form of mass transit. That would have made Clay Chastain happy !! lol
sad the old one was banned in the us.
Does anybody know when the 8th Street tunnel was closed down? It was in 1956, before April 29, but I would like to know the actual date
www.undergroundozarks.com/8thstreet.html
Well kansas city should have kept the thing!
+Rickey Rockett:
We've got it back now and it's up and running as of a couple of weeks ago. :)
that's good but what you now have are tram (European) style rather than PCC (American) ~ I hope that all cities which are considering the return of street cars will use the PCC model as it gives the system an American character