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- Nearside_streetcar abstract "The Nearside (or Near-side) Car was a streetcar (trolley car or tram) designed by in-house engineers of the Thomas E. Mitten management team, which ran the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT). Nearside refers to the fact the car would pick up and discharge passengers on the “nearside” of an intersection rather than the “farside” as the previous generation of “conventional” cars did (this method of operation caused frequent gridlock, as the stopped cars blocked cross traffic). The 1,500 cars that the PRT ordered from the J. G. Brill Company in South Philadelphia was the largest single order of streetcars in North American history. The cars were initially designed as “muzzle loaders” with only double front doors for passenger entry and exit. Later, most of the fleet would have center exit doors cut into them making them Peter Witt cars. The cars were in service in Philadelphia from 1911 to 1955, when they were scrapped in favor of the more modern PCC streetcar. Nearside cars were also purchased by the International Railway Company of Buffalo, NY and in Chicago by the Chicago Surface Lines, both properties were also managed by Mitten.".
- Nearside_streetcar thumbnail Nearside_6618_at_Seashore.png?width=300.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageID "4579119".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageLength "1864".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageOutDegree "8".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageRevisionID "686684288".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tram_vehicles_of_the_United_States.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLink J._G._Brill_Company.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLink PCC_streetcar.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Witt_streetcar.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia_Transportation_Company.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLink Tram.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLink File:Brill_Near-side_Car_builders_plate.png.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLink File:Nearside_6618_at_Seashore.png.
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nearside cars".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nearside streetcar".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nearside".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nearsides".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageWikiLinkText "near-side".
- Nearside_streetcar wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Tram-stub.
- Nearside_streetcar subject Category:Tram_vehicles_of_the_United_States.
- Nearside_streetcar hypernym Streetcar.
- Nearside_streetcar type Train.
- Nearside_streetcar type Vehicle.
- Nearside_streetcar comment "The Nearside (or Near-side) Car was a streetcar (trolley car or tram) designed by in-house engineers of the Thomas E. Mitten management team, which ran the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT). Nearside refers to the fact the car would pick up and discharge passengers on the “nearside” of an intersection rather than the “farside” as the previous generation of “conventional” cars did (this method of operation caused frequent gridlock, as the stopped cars blocked cross traffic).".
- Nearside_streetcar label "Nearside streetcar".
- Nearside_streetcar sameAs Q2333579.
- Nearside_streetcar sameAs Nearside_Car.
- Nearside_streetcar sameAs m.0c9tx8.
- Nearside_streetcar sameAs Q2333579.
- Nearside_streetcar wasDerivedFrom Nearside_streetcar?oldid=686684288.
- Nearside_streetcar depiction Nearside_6618_at_Seashore.png.
- Nearside_streetcar isPrimaryTopicOf Nearside_streetcar.