Random Photos of Trolley Cars

Tch!  Poor thing.  2600 series wartime PCC; you can tell because it's missing the aluminium fluting at each end (wartime restrictions).  

Jacksonville, Florida

Miami, Florida

St Petersburg, Florida

Tampa, Florida

Tampa, Florida

Must be Portland, Denver or LA. I am guessing LA.  Can anyone identify the exact location?

Says "Los Angeles City Lines" at upper left, and the tracks are narrow gauge, so...

Mitch

PRT Funeral Trolley "Hillside"

mwb posted:

PRT Funeral Trolley "Hillside"

Interesting.  The Hillside usually sported Brill 39-E maximum traction trucks.  Wonder when they put on the 27-G trucks?

Mitch 

  a couple O scale trolley layouts...

                    https://youtu.be/TOlj9Htyje8

                             https://youtu.be/zg38-MGXTT8

Lehigh Valley Transit

Connecticut

Rhode Island

Augusta, Georgia

Line car with crew and ties on the next car

Once in a while, the San Francisco Cable Cars lose the cable on an incline and need a push up the hill. I've heard that sometimes the cable is greased up too much causing the clamp to slip. I wonder if that is why the cable car didn't re-attach to the cable on the flat section, and instead had to be pushed up the second hill.

          https://youtu.be/s-MOirlcQFE

Berkshire Street Railway Trolley #71

Berkshire Street Railway Trolley #80

Binghamton Railway #213

Binghamton Railway #311

Burlington Traction Company #24

Catskill Electric Railway Company #21

                                             delivery of the new town trolley...

Trolley and Motorman on C&E Line in Erie Pa - looks like it's actually the negative, too.

Here are a bunch of toy trolley cars I wish were mine. I do not know which companies made most of these trolley cars, but there are some by Lionel, Voltamp, Kingsbury Pressed Steel, Marklin, Ives, Chein, Howard, Knapp and Hubley.

mwb posted:

Trolley and Motorman on C&E Line in Erie Pa - looks like it's actually the negative, too.

That fellow in the front looks like he's about to get his hands dirty.  Or, maybe he already has and he is hiding them after getting things in tip top running shape again. 

TRRR

mwb posted:

Trolley and Motorman on C&E Line in Erie Pa - looks like it's actually the negative, too.

This is not a negative print.  However, this print was done backwards which means that the negative was inserted in the enlarger incorrectly.  The car number should read 2018.  I wonder if this was a local street car or one that went west towards Girard, PA and Conneaut, OH. 

Allegheny48 posted:

mwb posted:

Trolley and Motorman on C&E Line in Erie Pa - looks like it's actually the negative, too.

This is not a negative print.  However, this print was done backwards which means that the negative was inserted in the enlarger incorrectly.  The car number should read 2018.  I wonder if this was a local street car or one that went west towards Girard, PA and Conneaut, OH. 

Easily fixed!  

Mitch 

Fooling about with GIMP a bit... 

Mitch 

Allegheny48 posted:

mwb posted:

Trolley and Motorman on C&E Line in Erie Pa - looks like it's actually the negative, too.

This is not a negative print.  However, this print was done backwards which means that the negative was inserted in the enlarger incorrectly.  The car number should read 2018.  I wonder if this was a local street car or one that went west towards Girard, PA and Conneaut, OH. 

How coincidental that this photo should reappear in 2018!

Bill

briansilvermustang posted:

Are those air horns on the station side?  It's hard to tell, even upon enlargement ...

Tomlinson Run Railroad

Well, they look like air horns to me...

Marty

Yes, they're air horns.  But they're on the LVT Liberty Bell Limited car.    

Mitch 

WftTrains posted:

Allegheny48 posted:

mwb posted:

Trolley and Motorman on C&E Line in Erie Pa - looks like it's actually the negative, too.

This is not a negative print.  However, this print was done backwards which means that the negative was inserted in the enlarger incorrectly.  The car number should read 2018.  I wonder if this was a local street car or one that went west towards Girard, PA and Conneaut, OH. 

How coincidental that this photo should reappear in 2018!

Bill

I saved it for years & years, 

Here is a photo of a traction cart on college hill in Easton. The tram served Easton Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg NJ before the depression when it closed. Apartently one of the original tram karts was found and is now being restored in Phillipsburg by the Railroads historians (mind you NOT the NYS&W T&HS) and are getting underway with it. 

Kawasakis and Suzukis.  My 1985 GS550E with a Ca. 1980-81 K-whacker LRV on Island Avenue just up from the loop.   Taken around 1987.  Good times.    (Yep, I posted the same picture on ADVRIDER if anyone just happens to be on this forum and on there also).

Got a few more from that day but all of the slides and prints are all buried.  Sorry for the crappy quality, it's a cell phone picture of one of the prints

Dayton & Troy..........

Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway #118

First Car over Canal Bridge, Lower Broadway, Fort Edward, New York

Fonda, Jamestown & Gloversville

Illinois Terminal Railroad Trolley #450

Illinois-Iowa Power Company Trolley 360

International Railway Company Trolley #23 at Buffalo, New York on February 22, 1948

After many years of faithful service, CLRV 4000 was loaded on to a truck at Leslie Barns for travel to the scrapper in Hamilton

         https://youtu.be/EvtUBS43E9M         

briansilvermustang posted:

After many years of faithful service, CLRV 4000 was loaded on to a truck at Leslie Barns for travel to the scrapper in Hamilton

         https://youtu.be/EvtUBS43E9M         

Looks like it put up a bit of a fight, at least.  (sad sigh) 

Mitch 

Were any CLRVs saved by museums?

Guessing that this terminal is in Saratoga Springs, NY, & it's a Schenectady car
.Somewhere in New York City

Another New York City Car

Oops! These electrics do not belong here!

Oneonta, Cooperstown & Richfield Springs Railway

Plattsburgh New York, Plattsburgh Traction Company

Public Service Co-Ordinated Transport #2172, NJ

Bobby Ogage posted:

International Railway Company Trolley #23 at Buffalo, New York on February 22, 1948

I think Buffalo was the first city to use the Near-Side car design.  

Philadelphia was the biggest user, with 1,500 of them running by 1915: 

In later years, most of the Nearsides were converted to center exit: 

In addition to Buffalo and Philadelphia, Nearsides ran in Chicago and Atlantic City.

Mitch 

                                       Mitch, where ARE you...

M. Mitchel,

Please explain what a "nearside" trolley car is.

Suburban Railway operated in Providence R.I & 675 & 690 were used on the BUTTERWOODS line

Syracuse Street Railway Trolley

Troy & New England Railway #7

United Traction Company #820 @ Quail St Car Barn

United Traction Company 832 @ #5 Delaware St

Waterford New York Bridge with United Traction Trolley #323

Watervliet Turnpike and Railway #44, 1st Troy -Albany Car

briansilvermustang posted:

This is a sad thing to see, a trolley car rotting away.

briansilvermustang posted:

                                       Mitch, where ARE you...

Odd trolley poles on that critter! 

Bobby Ogage posted:

M. Mitchel,

Please explain what a "nearside" trolley car is.

Sure!  Take a trolley like this:

Cars like this would board from the rear platform.  So, the procedure at an intersection would be for the car to cross, then stop with the rear platform at the corner (the 'far side' across the street).   

The Nearside car, on the other hand, is designed to load from the front:  

So, it would stop before the intersection and not block it while loading. 

Before the Nearsides were converted to center exit cars, entry and exit were done via the front doors, which made things a tad awkward...

Mitch

So "nearside" is relative to a road intersection.

Mt Lowe Scenic Railway

Rhode Island

St. Charles Street, New Orleans 1900

ITS Class D

Bobby Ogage posted:

So "nearside" is relative to a road intersection.

Prezackly!   

Mitch 

Somewhere In Baltimore, MarylandFonda Johnstown & Gloversville 129 was built by Brill in 1932

New Castle, Pennsylvania

Rochester Transit car 48, which ran on the Rochester subway. Passenger service was abandoned in 1956

Car 1000 near Ebbets Field, Home of the Dodgers

Brooklyn & Queens Transit 6018 at Fresh Pond Depot

The bridge in the background of the South Norwalk postcard is the 1890s truss carrying the NY,NH & H main line over the city streets.  It is still there today.  Immediately adjacent is the South Norwalk Switch Tower museum, well worth a visit if you are in the area.

Here is a sepia tone post card showing a trolley parked at the station which was located on the corner of Main and Harbor Streets in Conneaut, OH.  Not sure of the date of this post card but the station was built in 1911.  I have seen color tinted versions of this image. 

Philadelphia & Wilmington

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

I see a "Flying Fraction" PCC car crossing the Smithfield st. bridge in Pgh. Rode that a few times !!

               381 Summer Street Somerville, Massachusetts

                                               Worcester Lunch Car Company #773, 1941

Cars of the Concord, Maynard & Hudson Street Rwy in Massachusetts.

Hudson

Concord Junction

jim pastorius posted:

I see a "Flying Fraction" PCC car crossing the Smithfield st. bridge in Pgh. Rode that a few times !!

Hi Jim:

I believe that route 77/54 Northside-Carrick via Bloomfield was the original “Flying Fraction” made famous by KDKA radio personality Rege Cordic back in the 1950’s.  See the attached pdf file.  That route didn’t cross the Smithfield Street Bridge as it crossed the Mon on the 22^nd Street Bridge on its way from Carrick to Oakland and then also crossed the Allegheny on the 16^th Street Bridge on its way from Oakland to the North Side.  As a kid living in Carrick I rode that route many times to baseball games at Forbes Field and to go to the Carnegie Museum or other attractions in Oakland.  This route was discontinued in 1965. 

However, Bobby’s photo you are referring to above is a car on route 42/38 Mt. Lebanon/Beechview.  This route was a much “newer” route created by combining parts of the former 42 Dormont and 38 Mt. Lebanon routes.  This was one of the last surviving PAT streetcar routes and likely the only one that remained which had a fractional route number so I can see why it may have been considered a later version “Flying Fraction”.

Bill

Member, Pennsylvania Trolley Museum

briansilvermustang posted:

               381 Summer Street Somerville, Massachusetts

                                               Worcester Lunch Car Company #773, 1941

Actually modeled after a semi-streamliner rail car, not a trolley, but a great photo nonetheless! 

Tomlinson Run Railroad

briansilvermustang posted:

Those are really interesting cars, Brian.  It looks like the sides have at least seven entrances.  Sort of like an open air car but with partial sides.  I wonder whether the sides slid e to open and close? Does anyone have further information?

Tomlinson Run Railroad

Concord, Maynard & Hudson

West Water Street Trolley Co., which became the Elmira Water & Railway Co

briansilvermustang posted:

 

Both False Alarms and Grips, Grunts and Groans Three Stooges shorts contain wonderful vintage traction action!!!

Philadelphia & Wilmington

Philadelphia & Wilmington Conductors

Grand River RR #234

Chicago West Towns car 141 (the only surviving car, preserved at IRM) crossing the Illinois Central in North Riverside, IL:

Rusty

Darby, PA, site of the only remaining crossing of a Class 1 railroad by a revenue streetcar line...  

The streetcar rails are raised above the CSX rails, and the trolley flanges ride on top of the rails..

I wonder if any trolleys overshot the mark and went down those stairs... 

briansilvermustang posted:

Is this car a subway or El unit? It looks fascinating. Where did it operate in revenue service?

Bobby Ogage posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

Is this car a subway or El unit? It looks fascinating. Where did it operate in revenue service?

I'm just seeing this now. Nice!  In looking at the doors, I see that there are no steps.  That suggests to me that it normally ran on lowered tracks that required a platform for the passengers.  I'll be interested to learn more as well.  With that adjustable rod handing down on the side but then with a window-less monitor-style roof, it looks like some sort of transitional type. But I'm only guessing.  By the way, does that engine in the background say "Burlington"?

Tomlinson Run Railroad

I believe this car is at the Illinois Railroad Museom , I know I have that spelled wrong....

Marty

Bobby Ogage posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

Is this car a subway or El unit? It looks fascinating. Where did it operate in revenue service?

Hello

It is a Chicago Elevated System Wooden EL Motor Car -- built new in 1905-6 just as shown.  It is an Ex-Northwestern Elevated Company wood car #1797 and is seen running under its own power for the first time in decades at the Illinois Railway Museum on June 30, 2012. The car is painted in the Chicago Rapid Transit Company's brown and orange paint scheme, introduced in 1939. Car # 1797 wears a variation of the paint scheme (repainted to be true to its original application to the car, using photographs for reference) to fit the car's architecture; some variances may also result from the car possibly being the first car so repainted by CRT, making it a prototype for the design. The Photo is by Tim Peters.

These cars could MU with all other classes of Enclosed end and Open Platform types of Chicago Wooden  EL Cars and ran mainly on the large elevated lines system in the Chicago City and Suburban areas

Regards - Joe F

thanks Joe !!

Columbus Delaware & Marion Electric Company freight motor and train. When this motor moved, the power company must seen a spike in current flow.

Joseph Frank posted:

These cars could MU with all other classes of Enclosed end and Open Platform types of Chicago Wooden  EL Cars and ran mainly on the large elevated lines system in the Chicago City and Suburban areas

If memory serves, the poles were used in areas where the tracks were at grade, making third rail operation more hazardous... 

Mitch

PTC car at the Ardmore Terminal in 1943

Built in 1926, #76 above is still in service at the ECTM in Scranton.  

Is the rear truck derailed?

David Johnston posted:

Is the rear truck derailed?

If it was, it's not now. Haha

H&F #9

Trolley at Milton Park in Northumberland, Pa

briansilvermustang posted:

What is the history of this train?

Columbus Delaware & Marion Electric Co.

Columbus Delaware & Marion Electric Co.Car 21

Bobby Ogage posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

What is the history of this train?

 

       http://transpressnz.blogspot.c...otors-at-loftus.html

briansilvermustang posted:

You think they've got enough light?