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Baltimore: Stations on Baltimore's Guilford Avenue "El" were fairly simple and spartan in design – but they worked. in 1949, a PCC streetcar arrives at the Madison St. station. The elevated stations and other grade-separated or traffic-segregated electric railway stations were subsequently discarded by transportation planners and policymakers in favor of bus stops on publicly provided streets.

(Photo: E. S. Miller)



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