Random Photos of Trolley Cars

Here is an old trolley from Milan, Italy that runs in San Francisco.  Matt

At the Caledonia Park, Chambersburg & Gettysburg #12 in 1904 - let's go dancing!

Have spent a lot of time at Caledonia Park, taken a lot of photos there too. Pretty place but no sign of the old street car tracks even where the loop was.

mwb posted:

At the Caledonia Park, Chambersburg & Gettysburg #12 in 1904 - let's go dancing!

What luck! My dance card's full! :-). However, tell me, do those windows in the monitor roof really swing outward hinged from alternating sides?  It looks like it, and so when they are open they form four "Vs".

I've never seen monitor windows that before -- only ones that are hinged at the top.  This current design would seem to limit the airflow more.  Plus, there are only four pairs.

Interesting.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

UPDATE:  It's hard to see in the photo above, but mwb's post from yesterday shows the windows from the side view and they are nicely centered.  So unusual trucks and windows? 

TRRR

TomlinsonRunRR posted:

What luck! My dance card's full! :-). However, tell me, do those windows in the monitor roof really swing outward hinged from alternating sides?  It looks like it, and so when they are open they form four "Vs".

I've never seen monitor windows that before -- only ones that are hinged at the top.  This current design would seem to limit the airflow more.  Plus, there are only four pairs.

They do appear to be hinged just as you note.  Only car I've seen like that as well, but then again there are probably others out there..............

UPDATE:  It's hard to see in the photo above, but mwb's post from yesterday shows the windows from the side view and they are nicely centered.  So unusual trucks and windows? 

Yes, a very interestingly detailed car -- could model just about all, but I need to ask about on those sideframes...... 

C & G cars at Black Gap

Trolley cars in New Hampshire.

KeenePortsmouth, Dover & York Street Railway

C & G Trolley Line to Caledonia Park Near Chambersburg PA

C & G Trolley Station at Caledonia Park near Chambersburg PA

The end portion of the PRy/PAT Drake line after being cut back a few years ago.

OK I'll play... look at that web of pull-overs!

Reading (and not PA!) England 1966.  Attributed to Alan Murray-Rust.

1924 Chambersburg & Gettysburg Rwy Car 1 with motorman Calvin Seuseny - looks like there's dancing in Caledonia again!

Trolley cars in New Jersey.

Trenton & New Brunswick

Jersey Central Traction

Public Service of New Jersey On Elevated  Line Between Hoboken & Jersey City

A C&G Trolley in Memorial Square, Chambersburg, Pa in route to Fayetteville

"Elmlawn" funeral car of the International Railway Co., Buffalo, N.Y. Built by Brill in 1895 for $5,798.00, it had 4 G. E. motors, Brill #27 trucks, a length of 38' 5". The Elmlawn, one of 3 funeral cars, met its demise along with the Greenwood funeral car in the Coldsprings car house fire of 1915.

At the CG&W Rwy Car Barn in Waynesboro Pa

Trolley cars in West Virginia.Interurban in McWorterHeavy car in Parkersburg

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Calendar Photo for September 2017 showed Pittsburgh Railways Crane Car #M283 turning onto to Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh in 1954 on its way to a job site with a line truck following.  Note the 1700-series PCC car in the background.  Unfortunately, this view doesn't show the boom.  

Also yinz older Pittsburghers will remember that refreshing drink advertised on the billboard: Reymer's Lemon Blend!  What ever happened to it?

Bill

Also yinz older Pittsburghers will remember that refreshing drink advertised on the billboard: Reymer's Lemon Blend!  What ever happened to it?

Still available: http://www.pennmac.com/items/3...-lemon-blennd-gallon

mwb posted:

Also yinz older Pittsburghers will remember that refreshing drink advertised on the billboard: Reymer's Lemon Blend!  What ever happened to it?

Still available: http://www.pennmac.com/items/3...-lemon-blennd-gallon

Interesting that someone else has revived the brand name and the product.  So Reymer's is no longer in business but Lemon Blennd is now made by a company called B&K Mfg. and sold by an Italian deli on Penn Ave. in the Strip District.  I'll have to stop in there the next time I'm in the 'burg.

Thanks,

Bill

Usually fahnd dahn gian iggle next to the Daily's mixes n'at. Throw some in yer buggy next time yinz are in tahn.

CG & W 30 at Penmar - destination sign states Hagerstown but to get there you had to go to Shady Grove and transfer to the Hagerstown & Frederick.

All of these trolley once graced city streets in Alabama. Lots of colorful Birneys.

False alarm. This fire in Birmingham is in a faux trolley bus.

Greg Nagy posted:

Usually fahnd dahn gian iggle next to the Daily's mixes n'at. Throw some in yer buggy next time yinz are in tahn.

Greg: Thanks, fortunately I do understand Pittsburghese and will look for it at the Glenshaw Giant Eagle on my stop over in Pittsburgh after York.  I'll also pick up some IC Light while I'm there to bring back to Florida.  

Bill

WftTrains posted:

Greg Nagy posted:

Usually fahnd dahn gian iggle next to the Daily's mixes n'at. Throw some in yer buggy next time yinz are in tahn.

Greg: Thanks, fortunately I do understand Pittsburghese and will look for it at the Glenshaw Giant Eagle on my stop over in Pittsburgh after York.  I'll also pick up some IC Light while I'm there to bring back to Florida.  

Bill

  

 

Ok... But if you want "fresh made" (and to include trolleys), take the T to South Park station, climb the hill to see PCC 4007, then continue on to Danny's Pizza on RT88 hot a hoagie and a Blennd. Mixed in the old fountain machine, no less. Perfect pairing.

Greg Nagy posted:

WftTrains posted:

Greg Nagy posted:

Usually fahnd dahn gian iggle next to the Daily's mixes n'at. Throw some in yer buggy next time yinz are in tahn.

Greg: Thanks, fortunately I do understand Pittsburghese and will look for it at the Glenshaw Giant Eagle on my stop over in Pittsburgh after York.  I'll also pick up some IC Light while I'm there to bring back to Florida.  

Bill

  

 

Ok... But if you want "fresh made" (and to include trolleys), take the T to South Park station, climb the hill to see PCC 4007, then continue on to Danny's Pizza on RT88 hot a hoagie and a Blennd. Mixed in the old fountain machine, no less. Perfect pairing.

I'll keep that in mind the next time we visit our friend in Bethel Park.

Thanks,
Bill

CG&W car and H&F car at the Shady Grove Depot interchange....

Some unusual trolley cars.

Borough of Blackpool, UK

Brill BulletsBruised & battered, the 1st production PCC, Car 1001 parked in Brooklyn, New York City

War Bond car in St. Paul, Minnesota

Who said it doesn't snow in New Orleans?

Bobby Ogage posted:

Some unusual trolley cars.

Borough of Blackpool, UK

Brill BulletsBruised & battered, the 1st production PCC, Car 1001 parked in Brooklyn, New York City

War Bond car in St. Paul, Minnesota

Who said it doesn't snow in New Orleans?

picture #2 sure looks like septa hi speed line to Norristown from 69th St.

Does anyone know the fate of the first PCC car ??  Should be nice to have.

PRRTrainguy posted:

Bobby Ogage posted:

Some unusual trolley cars.

Borough of Blackpool, UK

Brill BulletsBruised & battered,

picture #2 sure looks like septa hi speed line to Norristown from 69th St.

As a youngster riding the Blackpool "boat car" on an all day fall fan trip when it was on loan to SEPTA for the bicentennial was one of, if not the the most memorable times in my trolley riding life.  The fact that they re-gauged it for Pennsylvania wide gauge was absolutely amazing.

Too bad all I had was an Instamatic 20.   So much of Philly trolley infrastructure has disappeared since then.   We rode nearly all of the Luzerne Barn routes that day.  We ran the route 6 all the way to Ogontz and Chelten and then back to Erie avenue

We did the upper portion of the 23 car, and the the 53.  The car slipped and nearly stalled on the wet rail going up the Wayne avenue hill to the Carpenter loop on the 53,  we rode the route 60 to the Richmond Westmoreland loop, the 56 past "Bachman Bros Plastics"  and also up route 50 to the Olney cutback loop since there was a parade that blocked Rising Sun Avenue and the loop at Knorr.  Awesome memories of tracks and wires everywhere, remnants of switches into streets with long abandoned routes.  Trolley and trolley bus wires on Wyoming Avenue and track into the Cortland shops behind SEPTA headquarters on Wyoming.

And of course the tripleheader of the bullets for their last fan trip was fun.   I don't think our tired out fully loaded three car train could could hit 60.

jim pastorius posted:

Does anyone know the fate of the first PCC car ??  Should be nice to have.

Jim:

The first production PCC car (the car pictured on the left in that Brooklyn photo, Brooklyn & Queens Transit PCC #1001), has been restored and is at the Shoreline Trolley Museum in East Haven, Connecticut.  

However, the first PCC actually delivered to a transit company, Pittsburgh Railways #100, fell victim to the scrapper's torch in 1967 a few years after Allegheny County's new PAT authority had taken over the streetcar and bus lines and had rejected this car and many other sister cars from Pittsburgh Railway's early PCC orders.

Bill

Well, I am glad the original production PCC car is saved. As a kid I rode the old yellow cars with wicker seats. To me the PCC is such a classic design  from that era such as the DC-3, the jeep,  and the streamliners.

jim pastorius posted:

Well, I am glad the original production PCC car is saved. As a kid I rode the old yellow cars with wicker seats. To me the PCC is such a classic design  from that era such as the DC-3, the jeep,  and the streamliners.

Classic shapes.

GG1's, PCC cars and B model Macks. 

Trolley cars in Wisconsin.

Rt 10, HarwoodWatertown

Waukesha

Headed for East Troy

KenoshaMilwaukee

More trolley cars of Virginia.

Charlotsville Cars@ University of VirginiaGrove Avenue, RichmondRichmond

BethesdaWest Norfolk

Here are some trolley locomotives.

Here are two cutouts of 10-window Brill semi-convertible cars you can copy, print and assemble. Enlarge the size to make it easier. Lets see how yours turns out. Post some pictures here.

CG&W line in Shady Grove, Pa

Philly PCC at PA Trolley Museum this past weekend