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It was standing room only on this Pittsburgh Railways Street Car on a July afternoon in the early 1900’s at Kennywood Park.  Back in those days that was how most park visitors arrived at and returned home from the park.  Note the long dresses and suit on the man.  Back then this park had to compete with 13 other “trolley parks” in the Pittsburgh area for customers.  And among those 13 trolley parks, only Kennywood survived!

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Many years later than this photo I rode PCC streetcars to Kennywood when I was a kid.  I also rode a passenger train with my grandparent's to Idlewild Park in Ligonier as my grandfather worked for the Pennsy and had a pass.  BTW Idlewild also survives to this day but it was not a trolley park having been started by the Ligonier Valley Railroad, a short narrow gauge coal-hauling railroad.  Bill

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