jim sutter posted:
Jimmy:
Great photos! Thanks for posting. Car #350 in your 4th photo is stored indoors at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in “Little Washington” and preserved in virtually the same condition as it was in its last days of service in Johnstown.
Another source of good photos of Johnstown trolleys is the Morning Sun Book “Pennsylvania Trolleys, Volume III, The Pittsburgh Region” by Bill Volkmer. The book also has a map of the Johnstown Traction Company routes along with many photos of the trolley busses and diesel busses which replaced the streetcars. In fact, there’s a later photo of that same scene as in your second photo except it shows busses instead of a streetcar. The first time I ever saw a trolley bus was in Johnstown as a kid.
Unlike the streetcar systems in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia which used “Pennsylvania Wide Gauge”, Johnstown’s track was standard railroad gauge. And Johnstown was the smallest US City to operate PCC’s with a fleet of 17 PCC cars built by St. Louis Car Company in 1947. They didn’t have a very long career though as the last day of streetcar service in Johnstown was June 11, 1960.
Bill