St. Charles City Streetcar
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The St. Charles City Streetcar is a proposed new heritage streetcar
line to be built connecting the New Town, Missouri
residential development to the nearby city of St. Charles
. This is a joint effort between Whittaker Builders, Inc, and the City of St. Charles and St. Charles Area Transit
. A minimum of nine vintage PCC streetcar
s have been purchased from the San Francisco area by Whittaker Builders for use and spare parts (not to be confused with cable cars
).
front area and the historic main street of St. Charles, Missouri
. It will connect up to five major stops including the St. Charles Convention Center
and the Family Arena
venue.
Heritage streetcar
Heritage streetcars or heritage trams are a development of the heritage railways that are becoming popular across the world. As with modern streetcar systems, the vehicles are referred to as trams or tramcars in the United Kingdom, Australasia and certain other places , but as streetcars or...
line to be built connecting the New Town, Missouri
New Town, Missouri
New Town at St. Charles is a partially completed planned community within the city of St. Charles, Missouri. The community's developers espouse the principles of Traditional Neighborhood Design and New Urbanism...
residential development to the nearby city of St. Charles
Saint Charles, Missouri
St. Charles is a city in, and the county seat of, St. Charles County, Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 65,794, making St. Charles the 2nd largest city in St. Charles County. It lies just to the northwest of St. Louis, Missouri on the Missouri River, and, for a time,...
. This is a joint effort between Whittaker Builders, Inc, and the City of St. Charles and St. Charles Area Transit
St. Charles Area Transit
St. Charles Area Transit, branding its service as SCAT, is a public transportation service located in St. Charles County, Missouri. The goal of the service is to provide mass transit access for these St. Louis, Missouri suburbs, which are not part of the city's Bi-State Development Agency...
. A minimum of nine vintage PCC streetcar
PCC streetcar
The PCC streetcar design was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful in its native country, and after World War II was licensed for use elsewhere in the world...
s have been purchased from the San Francisco area by Whittaker Builders for use and spare parts (not to be confused with cable cars
Cable car (railway)
A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required...
).
Route description
The route will have a trackage of 8 miles (12.9 km) from the new urban development New Town St. Charles to the Missouri riverMissouri River
The Missouri River flows through the central United States, and is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is the longest river in North America and drains the third largest area, though only the thirteenth largest by discharge. The Missouri's watershed encompasses most of the American Great...
front area and the historic main street of St. Charles, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
. It will connect up to five major stops including the St. Charles Convention Center
St. Charles Convention Center
The St. Charles Convention Center, managed by Global Spectrum, opened in April 2005 and hosts over 400 events each year.The facility itself has a . Grand Ballroom, and . of Exhibit Hall space expandable to . through the adjacent Junior Ballroom. The facility features additional meeting rooms, the...
and the Family Arena
Family Arena
The Family Arena is a multi-purpose arena in St. Charles, Missouri, built in 1999. The arena seats 9,643 for hockey, 9,755 for football, 10,467 for basketball, 6,339 for half-house concerts and up to 11,522 for end-stage concerts...
venue.
See also
- Delmar Loop TrolleyDelmar Loop TrolleyThe Delmar Loop Trolley is a planned heritage trolley line that will serve the Delmar Loop district in St. Louis, Missouri and University City, Missouri. The line will have about 9 stations and serve the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park, Washington University in St...
a plan to restore streetcar service in the University City Loop, a St. Louis suburb - Streetcars in St. LouisStreetcars in St. LouisStreetcars in St. Louis, Missouri operated as part of the transportation network of St. Louis from the middle of the 19th century through the early 1960s. During the first forty years of the streetcar in the city, a variety of private companies operated several dozen lines; from the turn of the...
the history of streetcars in St. Louis, Missouri going back to the 1800s