Some toy trolley cars, most of which I cannot identify. Maybe you can.
CG&W #34 at the Pen Mar Station in 1922 with Bob Monigham
Trolley cars in Texas.
El Paso, TexasMcKinney Avenue, Dallas
New Safety Car, Fort Worth
San Antonio
Dallas
Dallas
El Paso
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CG&W 34 at the Pen Mar Station in 1922 with H H Snowberger
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CG&W #33 at PenMar in 1922
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Thanks for posting these photos--love this thread.
Bobby Ogage posted:
Thanks, Bobby Ogage, some how I missed this gem of a post. It looks like the perfect distraction from weekend school work that I desperately need to get done ... coincidentally, I just got a new color toner cartridge! Temptations!
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Scotie posted:Thanks for posting these photos--love this thread.
Scotie,
I do, too. While Bobby Ogage and MWB do the lion's share of the posting, I really look forward to getting these posts in my mailbox. Looking at these photos, the variety of car styles and railway locations, and the history behind them really makes my day, and it is a welcome break from the work day crunch. The "randomness" makes it all the more fun.
Thanks for keeping this thread going, guys!
Tomlinson Run Railroad
Can cable cars count as "trolleys"? Here are some photos and an interesting background story about car #16 from San Francisco. When retired, it was placed on top of the Emporium Department Store building for use in a children's play ground:
Source: SF Chronicle, 1948
The background story and another photo (citation: OpenSFHistory / wnp32.0100.jpg; Echeveriia-Brandt Collection):
Number 16 was in service until Feb. 13, 1941 when buses took over the route. It was in storage until 1948 when the Emporium Dept. store purchased it for their Kiddiland Complex on the roof. It was there until the store closed in 1996; then, taken apart and stored. The parts were too far gone due to being in storage and the car was literally buried at sea. I seem to recall photos of some NJ/NY? subway cars that met a similar fate, except that that "burial" was done to create spaces to encourage sea life.
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Bobby Ogage posted:
I'm going to guess a battery car.
There was a considerable amount of experimentation with various parking schemes in the early days of automobiles.
A Stone and Webster "turtleback". The end profiles do look Birneyesque.
Mitch
Trolley cars of Nebraska.The aftermath of a tornado that struck Omaha in 1913.
This car is a mystery. I could not confirm that it ran somewhere in Nebraska. I would appreciate some help identifying this trolley car. I find the lights over the doors and the sloping car sides as interesting features. Could this car be a convertible?
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Omaha and Council Bluffs
From what I can see, #1014 was a 1917 company build (originally had brill 76E trucks with Westinghouse 506 motors).