Pittsburgh streetcar system map, 1954 Size:24x36 —Steven Higashide

—Steven Higashide

The 1920s Boston Elevated Railway was a marvel of engineering

I actually made this design because I was deep down a rabbit hole of the history of the San Francisco Bay Area

and long overdue

This is a map I drew of the 1923 system

Pittsburgh streetcar system map, 1954 Size:24x36 —Steven HigashidePittsburgh faced the same pressures as other cities after World War II: suburbanization, urban renewal, and expressways. Unusually, the metropoliss transit operator, Pittsburgh Railways, had chosen to go all in on modernizing its streetcar system instead of introducing buses wholesale. Over 600 state of the art streetcars operated on Pittsburghs streets at this time. But it was not to last: the streetcar network had suffered from poor maintenance, and