Seattle Consolidated Street Railway Company
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- Mar 13, 1892The Price of a Streetcar AccidentA Seattle streetcar company is ordered to pay a record-breaking $15,000 settlement after a collision leaves a passenger permanently disabled.Seattle, WA
- Aug 2, 1894The Streetcar Line That Paid Its Way—Until the Bonds Came DueSeattle’s consolidated street railway reports that fares cover operations but not mortgage interest, while receivership leases and a city council refusal reshape the young transit network.Seattle, WA
- Jan 1, 1895The Second Street Streetcar Line Goes to ForeclosureBondholders ask a federal court to sell Seattle's Second Street railway and its branches, while creditors scramble to reorganize the line before it is lost.Seattle, WA
- Jan 6, 1895The Denny Family's Streetcar Empire Comes DueA tangle of promissory notes, pledged railway stocks and bonds lands D. T. Denny and his sons in superior court, with a judgment looming over Seattle's early car lines.Superior Court of Washington for King County, Seattle, WA
- Mar 12, 1895Three Streetcar Companies Tell Seattle They're Too Broke to Keep the Lights OnIn receivership, in arrears and borrowing from their own bondholders, the city's electric railways ask to be excused from the franchise requirement that they light the streets their cars run over.Seattle, WA
- May 13, 1895Seattle's Streetcar Franchise Fight: A City Council Asked to Extend a Struggling Railway's LeaseIn 1896, the Seattle Consolidated Street Railway Company asked the city to extend its franchise to fifty years and share gross returns, arguing that a mandated paving bill would otherwise bankrupt the line.Seattle, WA
- May 19, 1895City Council Wrestles a 50-Year Streetcar Franchise Into ShapeA committee debate over percentages of gross earnings reveals how Seattle gave away its transit future one clause at a time.Seattle, WA
- Jun 16, 1895The City Council Sets Terms for Streetcar ExpansionSeattle's street railway franchise negotiations reveal the city's growing pains as it demands transfer systems and revenue sharing from private transit operators.Seattle, WA
- Jun 20, 1895The Night a Streetcar Powerhouse Fire Left Half of Seattle DarkA pre-dawn blaze at Fifth and Pine gutted the Consolidated Street Railway plant, destroyed nearly all its cars and dynamos, crippled three lines, and blacked out everything north of Pike Street.Seattle, WA
- Jun 21, 1895A Powerhouse Fire Couldn't Keep Seattle's Streetcars Down for LongFlames destroyed the Consolidated Street Railway's power house and dozens of cars before dawn, but borrowed dynamos and quick repairs had the lines running again by morning.Seattle, WA
- Jun 24, 1895The Streetcar Empire That Ran Out of Track: Griffith's Realty CollapseA Seattle street-railway magnate's tangled web of notes, mortgages and second-mortgage bonds is handed to trustees — with $360,000 in property and a trail of debt.Seattle, WA