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which built a single subway line in the 1920s
and in the end the discussions never came to anything
most of which was built pre-World War II
- Shipping will be in a rigid tube
None of Shipe's successors could figure out a way to make money from transit
St. Louis streetcar system map, 1897 wisconsin which built a single subwaySt. 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,