Random Photos of Trolley Cars

TomlinsonRunRR posted:

Recently, Bobby Ogage treated us to a B&W 1911 film of NYC with some great trolley and street scenes.  Today is a holiday for many of us and this is a "random" trolley thread, so for fun here is a short 1952 Disney cartoon that also features some trolley scenes. You can compare east coast and west coast street traffic :-):

Susie the Little Blue Coup

My plan was to model a 1:43 "Susie" coup for my layout out of clay today.  I am working on a humorous "self-driving/automomous car" story in my RR town, and this character will fit right in.  However, it's 9:27 AM and the relative humidity inside is already 77, so we'll see how motivated I am. 

Meanwhile, enjoy these screen caps of some great looking animated trolleys.  In case you don't bother to watch the video, it has a happy ending:

Tomlinson Run Railroad

Here ya go!

Vermont Springfield Terminal Railroad

Brooklyn, New York

Yonkers, New York

These are all from Weehawken New Jersey   You can see the New York Central terminal in the rear

BlueLineC4,

Thanks for posting the New Jersey Transit photos. Trolley photos in New Jersey are not so common on the internet. My mother & father often mentioned they had dates riding trolley cars in New Jersey.

Long Island Boynton Bicycle Railroad

Bobby Ogage posted:

Long Island Boynton Bicycle Railroad

Wow. That's a new one to me.  Very interesting!  Do they back pedal to go in reverse? 

When I have more time, that's definitely worth some web research on the monorail technology!  The front is apparently quite aerodynamic, too.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

More Long Island Boynton Beach Bicycle Railroad photos.

This electric train was designed to travel at 80 to 100 MPH!!!

CTA Sand Spreader

Broome-Endicot New York Car 301

Where is this????

Binghamton, New York

Bobby Ogage posted:

Where is this????

Binghamton, New York

The first image was taken in front of the Loews Warfield Theatre, 928 Market Street, San Francisco, CA.  Check out www.cinematreasures.org for more pictures showing the theatre and marquee.  Having opened in 1922 and closed as a theatre in the 1990's it is still a venue for live concerts.

On the San Francisco picture, it is an interesting photo.  Market Street had four tracks on it. The privately owned Market Street Railway ran on the inside tracks and the city owned Municipal Railway ran on the outside tracks. The City bought the Market Street Railway in 1947. The photo is of a Martke Street Railway car running on one of the MSRy routes on the outside track. The inside track is being rebuilt. The two tracks on the other side of the street are not in the photo.  It looks like this photo was taken after the MUNI bought the MSRy. The inside tracks tracks are being rebuilt prior to removing the outside tracks. After the inside tracks were rebuilt all the car lines were moved to the inside tracks. Most of the MSRy lines were converted to buses. The only MUNI lines that remained street car lines were the ones with either tunnels or private right of way. In the end this left only the J, K, L, M, and N lines with rails. This has been reversed today and a number of the street car lines have been put back in. 

Market Street may be one of the busiest transit corridors in the country. Today, on the surface it has two streetcar tracks and four trolley coach pairs of wires.  There is also a streetcar subway and below that is the BART subway. 

BOBBY OGAGE's third photo in his last post shows the intersection of Court (the curved one) and Chenango Streets, I believe.  The ornate cast-iron building on the corner at left was McLean's Department Store for a long time.  The building across Chenango Street was a bank and across Court Street to the right an office building.  The autos parked at the right are in front of the county courthouse (out of frame).

Thanks, Bobby!

Where did this happen?

Crash In Alameda, Ca

Erie Railways Car 187 Wreck

Just a couple of Kuhlman Cars

Des Moines City Railway Car 737

Des Moines City Railway Car 202

Toronto TC-2894-2834-WCB-building-Harbour-St-Ferry

Lancaster-Lititz Electric Line to Kissell Hill, Pa

Atlantic City & Shore 6891 was built by Brill in July 1938

Someone please post some information about the Erie Railway.

Erie Railways Car 21

Erie Railways Car 181

Erie Railways Car 282

Erie Railways Cars @ Kuhlman Plant, Ohio