Random Photos of Trolley Cars

Once upon a time a trolley ran through the Delaware Water Gap from Stroudsburg to Portland in Pennsylvania. I am unable to find a map of the right of way for the Stroudsburg & Water Gap Ry. Does anyone know where this railway right of was?

          I think that this road may be Rt 611

Gentlemen,

   Thanks for the memories!

PCRR/Dave

mwb posted:

Sunbury & Northumberland Trolley and Conductors

 

Interesting — one has a coat that buttons on the 'right' side, the other has a coat that buttons on the 'left' side.

I wonder why the differences.

Ron M

ron m posted:

Interesting — one has a coat that buttons on the 'right' side, the other has a coat that buttons on the 'left' side.

I wonder why the differences.

Ron M

No idea.  Maybe you had to supply your own uniforms and that was not specified?  Maybe one guy is left handed?

Some more of the Sunbury & Northumberland and 3 Conductors

Now we're all gonna be looking at how their jackets are buttoned ... :-).

TRRR

TomlinsonRunRR posted:

Now we're all gonna be looking at how their jackets are buttoned ... :-).

TRRR

Those 3 guys are a real bundle of joy, too.

mwb posted:

TomlinsonRunRR posted:

Now we're all gonna be looking at how their jackets are buttoned ... :-).

TRRR

Those 3 guys are a real bundle of joy, too.

=grin= Yeah, I noticed that, too.  Maybe it was their last day on that line and it was a farewell photo?

TRRR

I think working for the trolley or interurban company was a good job in those days. A book I have gave the wages for a company in Pa.

          More trolley crews to study.

Here are 2 photos of Pittsburgh Railways #3487, a Double Truck, Double End High Floor Car built by St. Louis Car Company in 1905.  This car has been preserved and is on display at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum.  The first photo from the PTM website shows it in service on the #13 Emsworth Route around 1909.  The second photo shows it at the Museum as pictured on a postcard during the early years of the Museum. 

And now that we’re focusing on uniforms, note that the conductor and motorman’s jackets appear to button down the middle but with the left side on the outside.

Bill

Still on the Sunbury & Northumberland.....nice little single truck open car!

When I lived in Little Rock back in 1979 - 1982, there was no trolley system or talk of one. Since I left town, look what was sprung up. The cars appear to be newly built by Gomaco.

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!

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

Bill,

What a great Kennywood photo and back story.  Kennywood was a stop for my family but I seem to recall that we drove but then often went with extended family/friends.  My mother's generation went to Ligonier, also on PRR passes.  Small world.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

Trolley parks were once prolific and predominately on the east side of the Mississippi River. Here's a link to the history of trolley parks, and it includes lists of trolley parks still operating and those that went out of business.

Trolley Parks

Between this thread and the diner car thread, if you are not following Brian Butko on Facebook and some of his groups, you are missing out on a lot of stuff. 

     I don't know how much trolley content will be in it, but his book on Luna Park in Pittsburgh is dropping now.

Trolley cars at or in route to parks.On The Way Up Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester Towards Franklin Park

         1955 SAN FRANCISCO @ PLAYLAND AMUSEMENT PARK

Asheville & Craggy Mountain Railway Cars On Sunset Mountain In Route To Overlook Park

        AT RIVERSIDE, Rhode Island 1910 Going TO CRESCENT PARK

          Glen Echo Park
Idora Park TrolleyLakewood-Park-1910, Charlotte, NC

Portland 506 was hauled up to Council Crest Park on Nov. 22, 1950 and it stayed there till vandals damaged it on Halloween night in 1972

Trolley Cars @ Washington Park, Westville, NJ

Greg Nagy posted:

Between this thread and the diner car thread, if you are not following Brian Butko on Facebook and some of his groups, you are missing out on a lot of stuff. 

     I don't know how much trolley content will be in it, but his book on Luna Park in Pittsburgh is dropping now.

Greg,

Yes, Brian Butko has done a good job of picking up the torch from Randy Garbin, Richard Gutman, and others who photograph, record, and track diner buildings.  I avoid Facebook, but Mr. Garbin has a useful web blog.  Is there another O gauge diner car thread out there that I missed? We've had several here and I do hope to post some new information to my trolley-railcar-diner "the real story" post -- this weekend in fact, as it's been a while (too busy!).

Thanks for the heads up on the book release.

Tomlinson Run RR

I was reading a book on NW Pa.RRs and there was a photo of a dining car which they said went to Fredonia, Pa and made in to a diner. Any record of this ??