Philadelphia tram map

Philadelphia tramway map

The Philadelphia tram map shows all the stations and lines of the Philadelphia tramways. This tramway map of Philadelphia will allow you to easily plan your routes in the trams of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania - USA. The Philadelphia tram map is downloadable in PDF, printable and free.

For more than 150 years tramways have served the Philadelphia area and helped Center City Philadelphia retain its commercial, retail, and entertainment supremacy in an ever-expanding region. Although the motive power switched from horses to electricity (with short detours into steam and cable), most change has been evolutionary rather than revolutionary (see Philadelphia tramway map). Perhaps the greatest transformation took place in the early twentieth century when the combination of rising working-class wages and regulated fares allowed streetcars, once a middle-class means of transport, to become a key component of a truly heterogeneous mass transit system. Because of the tramways importance to urban life, twice they played key roles in the civil rights movement in Philadelphia.