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Red Devil (interurban)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Cincinnati Car Company· from 1929· streetcar model built by the Cincinnati Car Company
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 19660813 05 C&LE 119 Ohio Railway Museum-3 (8682437478): David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Red Devil was a high-speed interurban streetcar built by the Cincinnati Car Company for the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad (C&LE) in 1929–1930. They saw service throughout Ohio in the 1930s. After the failure of the C&LE in 1939 they saw service with the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway (CRANDIC) and the Lehigh Valley Transit Company.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 97 years ago, in 1929.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.4 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1929
- in service from
- 1929
- number built
- 20
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Cincinnati Car Company
- operators
- Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway, Lehigh Valley Transit Company
- top speed
- 145 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 13.4 m
- weight
- 21.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7304024, Wikipedia: Red Devil (interurban) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.