St. Louis streetcar system map, 1897 wisconsin or at least try for

or at least try for it

- Shipping will be in a rigid tube

it would've converted the existing streetcar lines to monorail and elevated them above the streets

and in the end the discussions never came to anything

The automated SkyTrain

St. Louis streetcar system map, 1897 wisconsin or at least try forSt. Louis of 1897 was a Gilded Age industrial mess. The average person was working 60 hours a week for miserable wages, the city was overcrowded and polluted, the economy had been in a depression for four years, and unemployment was at 18 percent. In short, the city was a powder keg waiting to explode. These problems came to a head in 1899 when the St. Louis Transit Co. and its president, Edwards Whitaker, bought out most of the citys streetcar lines,