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PRRTrainguy posted:
M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Man, that's one kuh-RAZY mixed up Acela! 

rex desilets posted:

An AMTRAK trolley...where?

Bahston, on the Lechmere line. 

Mitch

duh, what country for westerners.

Heh. What country? Personally, I always thought those New Englanders were from another planet altogether!

 

Greg Nagy posted:
PRRTrainguy posted:
M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Man, that's one kuh-RAZY mixed up Acela! 

rex desilets posted:

An AMTRAK trolley...where?

Bahston, on the Lechmere line. 

Mitch

duh, what country for westerners.

Heh. What country? Personally, I always thought those New Englanders were from another planet altogether!

Can you say "Photoshopped"?  Lechmere (pronounced "Leech-mere") was one of my favorite MBTA stops when I was a kid.  If I recall correctly there was a huge Sears (?) building at the end of the line, which was something of a famous destination for riders.

I thought this "T" stop was closed years ago, along with the retailer, but it just came up on a (very) quick web search.

TRRR

Pictures of the trolley depot in Saratoga Springs, New York are hard to come by. So far, I have found these. Are there any more out there??

The depot still stands as the Visitors Center in Saratoga. Only the tracks are gone.

The cars in the pictures belong to the Schenectady Railway Company and the Hudson Valley Railway Company.

HVR Saratoga Depot [1)http://www.saratogaspringsvisitorcenter.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Audience-shot-SND.jpg

This view is the backside of the trolley depot which is now the Visitor's Center. Trolley cars once parked under these shed roofs.

HVR Saratoga Depot [2)HVR Saratoga Depot [3)SARATO~1station of Saratoga Springs. This station was built by the Hudson Valley and used jointly with the SRC

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Tomlinson Run Railroad,

My wife & I often stay at the Springs Motel on McDonald Alley & Rt 50 in Saratoga. This is just two blocks away from the Visitor's Center, so this is the reason of my interest. There is lots on Google about the Schenectady Railway, the Hudson Valley Railway and Kadeross Railway which all ran from the depot (Visitor's Center) in Saratoga.

Exeter, Hampton & Amesbury Street Railway No. 12 At Hampton Beach

Exeter, Hampton & Amesbury Street Railway At Hampton Beach

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Coral Gables, Florida

Seattle’s Mayor Bertha Landes set the trolley lines on one of the city’s red streetcars that made a bargain “loop” through the downtown business area in 1927

Seattle’s Mayor Seattle's Mayor Bertha Landes Setting Trolley Poll On A Bargain Loop City Red Car In 1927

Yellow-Car-Metro-Library

Los Angeles. The color combination on the LA cars is not appealing. The orange is a good choice for visibility of the cars, but the olive green is an ugly choice. I wonder what the designer was thinking?

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Last edited by Bobby Ogage
Bobby Ogage posted:

I am going out on a limb here. It's my opinion that more Connecticut Company trolley cars have been saved and preserved than any other company's trolley cars. Why is this?

Well, ya got two trolley museums (Branford and Warehouse Point) in CT proper; indeed, Branford operates part of the former CT Co. track!   

Mitch 

Bobby Ogage posted:

I am going out on a limb here. It's my opinion that more Connecticut Company trolley cars have been saved and preserved than any other company's trolley cars. Why is this?

193-bera-08-78mtbera_connecticut775

 

193 and 775 are the same car. It was backdated to its original number and details while I was an active operator there. I've run the car in both configurations.

As for the question, it may be that the Shore Line Trolley Museum was one of the first streetcar museums, getting its start while streetcars were still running (albeit dwindling in number). The line was even connected to the functioning ConnCo network for a short while until service on the line leading into it was discontinued and pulled up.

---PCJ

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