In 1954, the PTC trolley system included 45 lines, using more than 1,500 trolley cars. In 1955, majority control of PTC was acquired by the National City Lines holding company, which had a record of replacing trolleys with buses in other cities.
Roosevelt ordered troops into the city to run the cars. The strike ended when President Franklin D. In 1944, during the Second World War, white PTC workers engaged in a wildcat strike aimed at preventing the promotion of African American employees to conductors and other positions. In 1940, the company placed orders for 130 PCC streetcars, 50 trackless trolleys, and 53 motor buses. PTC's network also included the Philadelphia trolleybus system, which was much smaller, along with numerous bus lines.Īmong PTC's first actions was to begin replacing its aging fleet of vehicles. Most suburban transit lines were operated by other private companies, including the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company, known as Red Arrow (trolley lines), the Southern Penn Bus Company (bus lines), and the Philadelphia & Western Railroad ( Norristown and Strafford interurban lines). PTC operated the rapid transit lines in urban Philadelphia – principally the Market–Frankford Line and Broad Street Line – leasing their fixed infrastructure from the City of Philadelphia. It operated a citywide system of bus, trolley, and trackless trolley routes, the Market–Frankford Line (subway-elevated rail), the Broad Street Line (subway), and the Delaware River Bridge Line (subway-elevated rail to City Hall, Camden, New Jersey, and now part of the PATCO Speedline) which became SEPTA's City Transit Division. PTC was established on January 1, 1940, by the merger of the PRT and several smaller, then-independent transit companies operating in and near the city. A private company, PTC was the successor to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT), in operation since 1902, and was the immediate predecessor of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). The Philadelphia Transportation Company ( PTC) was the main public transit operator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1968.
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