Cincinnati Transit Historical Association

Welcome to the Cincinnati Transit Historical Association

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For those attending monthly meetings in person at Queensgate, our location has changed as of July 2025. Jump to Location Change

Interested in streetcars? Railroads? Trolley buses? Transit history in general? Or is your interest more in present day transit activities?

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For over 40 years, the Cincinnati Transit Historical Association (CTHA) has been dedicated to the preservation of transit information, photos, and memorabilia from transit agencies centered around the Tri-State (Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana) region. Members have interests across the transit spectrum from railroads to streetcars, and from city transit buses to over-the-road buses to trolley buses.

The CTHA offers several benefits to members

An 8-times-per-year newsletter with various historical stories and information
A monthly meeting where slides and movies are presented featuring past and present transit systems of member interest. Not necessarily confined to southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky
A fleet of six operable restored transit buses, which are regularly seen in car shows, parades and other public and transit-industry functions in the region.
A library with a large collection of transit related books, as well as photos, negatives, records and other memorabilia.

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit, donations are tax deductible. Income from donations and memberships help keep our fleet roadable and helps us execute our mission to preserve history

How Can I join?

Click over to our membership and donation page HERE. There are two ways to start or renew a membership:
- Print a form, fill it out and mail it to us with a check
- Sign up online with a credit card

Monthly Meetings

Monthly meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month (except December). Due to ongoing construction at Queensgate, we've been forced to move the monthly meeting to Connections Christian Church, at 7421 E Galbraith Rd in Madeira. This is near Kenwood Towne Center. See map.

Arrive between 7:00PM and 7:30PM, and one of our members will let you in.

The May 2026 CTHA Show is from Terry Lehmann / Tom Morrow. Subject: the Green Line (eg, the "Cincinnati Newport and Covington").
- A couple months back at PotPourri, we showed a collection of the late Russ Schram's images, centering around the Green Line
- Many of Russ's photos had no location information, and it was a bit of a struggle to attempt to locate them on the fly
- Not connected to that activity, we've also been scanning Earl Clark's Logan Trays of slides, and recently did his Green Line images
-- The challenge (or maybe better, "reality") is that the Green Line was his favorite.
-- While a great number of his slides didn't have location info ... they didn't need them, as we suspect Earl knew them all by heart

What we're going to do is to gather the slides on which we need location info, and we're going to show them in order to get locations.

We are extraordinarily fortunate to secure Terry Lehmann's time, and perhaps more importantly, his knowledge of the line (after all, he and Earl literally wrote the book), and his research resources.

It will be a fun night.

The program is Saturday May 16 at 7:30PM Eastern time and will originate from Connections Christian Church in Madeira. For those who are unable to attend in person, we will also offer this presentation via Zoom at www.zoom.us.

To join us online, please click (or copy/paste) the registration form

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FcJRBm6ISi2LFChE_4Ywpg

to sign up for the show

We will be at the CTHA Library at Bond Hill from 230PM to 530PM on Saturday May 16 before the show. Members are welcome to stop by and visit; please drop me an email at cintranshistassn@gmail.com to let me know you're coming, and I'll send you my text number so that when you get there, I can let you into the building.