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TheCleveland Railway Company was thepublic transit operator inCleveland, Ohio, from 1910 to 1942. The company began operations with assets of the formerForest City Railway, which operated from 1906 to 1909. The company owned a fleet ofPCC streetcars.
ThoughNational City Lines never owned the system in Cleveland,General Motors did negotiate the sale of buses to the city, resulting in the shutdown of thestreetcar system. In Cleveland, complaints were made to theFBI after the mayor and city councilors were seen driving around in new General Motors cars. MayorRay T. Miller did receive a new car within a month of General Motors' winning the contract for new buses. The FBI refused to investigate based on high-profile nature of the people targeted.
The city of Cleveland bought out Cleveland Railway in 1942 and used it as the nucleus for the Cleveland Transit System, the precursor to the currentGreater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
The Cleveland streetcars were sold to theToronto Transit Commission, where they remained in service for thirty years until 1982. Others were sold to theBerlin and Waterloo Street Railway Company.
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