Streetcars of the past Traditional Cache
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I have placed a cache along the long Trolley Trail. It 10 x 3 pvc
pipe. There is enough room for trading items.
Streetcars first appeared in Cedar Falls in 1897, when gasoline
powered Patton motor cars made 10 round trips daily between the
Iowa State Normal School (UNI) and the corner of First and Main
Street. A year later, the Waterloo Rapid Transit Company purchased
the line. It replaced the Pattons with electric cars and connected
the line to one going to Waterloo. The line's official title was
the Waterloo, Cedar Falls, and Northern Railway, but it was
commonly known as the "Cedar Valley Road" because of the scenic
eight-mile route it followed between the Cedar River and the bluffs
of Castle Hill. A ride on the Cedar Falls loop cost 5c. The ride
between Cedar Falls and Waterloo cost 15cents, or 10 rides for a
dollar. It was reliable transportation too. During the memorable
winter of 1936, for example, the cars never stopped running despite
the terrible blizzards, (although at one point, the round trip from
Cedar Falls to Waterloo took 10 hours). The W., C.F. & N.
converted to buses during the 1940s and '50s, and the trolley line
fell into disuse. In town, the tracks were torn up or buried under
resurfaced streets. The sole reminder of this earlier means of
transportation is the Trolley Car Trail, a hiking and bicycling
path administered by the Waterloo Park Commission. You can reach
the trail by going north of Rainbow Drive in Waterloo on Hackett
Road to the Illinois Central Railroad viaduct.
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