Random Photos of Trolley Cars

A Brooklyn Birney that I am working on.....Q Car truck and parts, Corgi body.

Trolleys in Indiana.

CG&W Trolley at Pen-Mar, PA

Two bits sez that last pic was touched up for a newspaper.  And poorly, at that. 

Mitch 

Trolleys in Tennessee.

Trolleys in Washington and Reading, Pa. It's hard to find pictures of trolley cars in Washington State, so I combined them.

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Reading, Pa

Reading, Pa

Reading, Pa

Bobby Ogage posted:

More trolley cars in Connecticut.

The destination signs on the cars in these two pictures list towns in Massachusetts, not Connecticut.

MELGAR

Pretty cool photos, though, and not too far from Connecticut.  I like the running board on the work unit - made over from an open car? BTW, the Grafton and Upton (top photo) is still in business as a freight-only short line; electrification ended in the 1920s.

Hey Bobby  OGage, I'm enjoying your posts...but your latest (Wyoming, Washington and Reading) is wrong.  The first photo, labeled "Wyoming PCC", is from El Paso, showing #1516 parked at the Cotton St. Barn of El Paso Electric.  These cars, originally from San Diego, spent most of their life in El Paso, working the International Line between El Paso and Juarez, Chih.  They ran there until about 1974.  After a long period of storage, they are presently in Pennsylvania, being rebuilt to run again in El Paso.  

Please keep posting, Bobby.  It's great to see what once was.

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Bobby Ogage posted:

Trolleys in Wyoming, Washington and reading, Pa. It's hard to find pictures of trolley cars in Wyoming and Washington State, so I combined them Reading, Pa.Wyoming PCCWashingtonReading, PaReading, Pa

Reading, Pa

Reading, Pa

Reading, Pa

Ha! I thought you were listing three PA locations and was expecting pictures from the PTM (Washington, PA) and the ECTM (Wyoming Valley)  

Bobby Ogage posted:

Trolleys in Wyoming, Washington and reading, Pa. It's hard to find pictures of trolley cars in Wyoming and Washington State, so I combined them Reading,

Bobby, some misinformation there.  Your fourth photo is of Scranton Transit electromobile #505, currently under restoration at www.ectma.org  Your seventh photo is of a former Reading Transit & Light #511, I believe an Osgood Bradley built car, but the photo was taken in Skippack, Pa.  Car #511 has been at one of two locations in Skippack, both restaurants, since the 1980s.  

Please correct your post.

Montclaire posted:

Bobby Ogage posted:

Trolleys in Wyoming, Washington and reading, Pa. It's hard to find pictures of trolley cars in Wyoming and Washington State, so I combined them Reading,

Bobby, some misinformation there.  Your fourth photo is of Scranton Transit electromobile #505, currently under restoration at www.ectma.org  Your seventh photo is of a former Reading Transit & Light #511, I believe an Osgood Bradley built car, but the photo was taken in Skippack, Pa.  Car #511 has been at one of two locations in Skippack, both restaurants, since the 1980s.  

Please correct your post.

Plus the PCCs are in El Paso, Texas.   

Mitch 

You guys are sharp. Both of you passed the test. I knew these cars were wrongly categorized after I posted them, but not before. Good catches guys! I updated my original post. The bottom line is that I have not been able to find pictures of any trolley cars that operated in Wyoming.

El Paso, Texas PCC

Scranton Transit Electromobile

Horse Drawn Trolley arriving at the Buena Vista Spring Hotel at Pen-Mar PA

These are trolleys that run / ran in Oregon.

Bobby Ogage posted:

You guys are sharp. Both of you passed the test. I knew these cars were wrongly categorized after I posted them, but not before. Good catches guys! I updated my original post. The bottom line is that I have not been able to find pictures of any trolley cars that operated in Wyoming.

Gotcha covered!

Sheridan Interurban Railway 
#200 in an American Car Co. builders photo 
1911 
Bill Volkmer collection

Sheridan Street Railway 
Sheridan Street Railway streetcar 105 
circa 1915 
Stephen M. Scalzo collection

Courtesy of http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/

Mitch

Greg Nagy posted:

 

Note the early PCC, the Iron City Beer Sign and the Kaufmann's Department Store clock (the famous meeting place)!

And what could be more Pittsburgh-esque than this shot of a McKeesport-bound PCC streetcar passing under a Union Railroad Slag Dump Train? 

 

Thanks to Jim Holland for the photos.

Bill (another old codger)

Second image not found, but by the description I'd guess it was taken near Buttermilk Hollow Rd .

Hi Greg:

Yes, you are correct and I have now inserted the missing photo in my original post above.

Bill

Bobby Ogage posted:

These are trolleys that run / ran in Oregon.

Bobby:

Looks like another PCC car got identified with the wrong state!  The PCC car above is not from Oregon as no city in Oregon ever operated PCC cars.  I believe it is a San Francisco muni car.  Looks like it was ready for the scrap yard or a rebuild when this photo was taken.

Bill 

That picture was taken at a mechanical museum, which includes trolleys, along interstate 5.  I think it is Brooks, Oregon.  About 60 miles south of Portland. It is a San Francisco PCC car.  I cannot read the number, but it looks like a car in the 1016 to 1040 series, the last order of new PCC cars in US.