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How did streetcars first roll out in St. Louis?

look back misty-eyed at the city's once-extensive streetcar system, which went extinct in 1966 with a final ride of the Hodiamont Line to the Wellston Loop. That was, however, merely a sad end to a 100-yearold history. The emergence of the streetcar here in

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