Main St. Buffalo

Main Street Rail System


Although the terminal point for the majority of west side streetcars, the streetcars that used Main Street clearly made the street live up to its name.


In addition to Shelton Square being the origination point for the Grant, Niagara, and Elmwood streetcar lines, there were also a number of routes that passed through Shelton Square to continue either south towards the docks and harbor, or north toward the northeast sections of the city. The Main streetcar shared trackage with the Parkside-Zoo (or Kenmore) streetcar, the Kensington street car, the West Utica and East Utica streetcars. During the busy weekday, four to five minute headways between cars on each line made was common to see streetcar after streetcar lining Main Street once departing Utica Street.


This practice carried into the mid-1980s, until the opening of the Metro Rail line.

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Main St. Buffalo

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Main St. Buffalo