Random Photos of Trolley Cars

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MNCW posted:

Thanks for the color trolley movie, very nice. Never had seen that before. Interesting to see how the cars interacted with the trolleys. At around 2:03 into it you can see the marquee for the Kimball Theatre sticking out on the right side of the street. 

Tom 

Hello Tom

Here is a better quality movie -- from 2015,  of the fully restored TARS Trolley # 678 at the National Capital Trolley Museum in Wheaton Maryland.  This is the type of TARS streetcar we rode on Yonkers Ave & Maclean Ave back in that 1949-51 period.  This video had all the sounds and feel of the actual car  - both exterior and filmed inside the car behind the operator worth a look to see what it was like to ride one.  I can close my eyes and I'm riding in Yonkers again !  Even with the chatter of the "other passengers..."   LINK BELOW

RIDING ON A T.A.R.S. TROLLEY CAR in 2015 - IN COLOR

BELOW also are two photos of my model of TARS CAR # 629  shown on the street in the shadows of my overhead Elevated Train Line -- Car # 629 which is the sister to # 678 seen operating in the Museum movie !!

Regards - Joe F

Joe (& all), I found a part II of the TARS YouTube video that is pretty cool. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAE4Qf8IA1I

I liked seeing the cobblestone streets of Yonkers in the 1940's and some cool looking cars and trucks including one woody wagon. Also, since this was before my time, I thought I noticed a tendency of drivers to want to pass the trolleys whenever possible. Was it any worse than being behind today's local buses? 

At 18:10, there is Yonkers Ave and Walnut St., which I knew very well as my wife and her family lived 2 blocks up and I used to buy her flowers at that very corner (the building diagonally across the street looks like it was then a luncheonette with a Coke sign on it, later it would be Cascade Florist, closed for maybe 10-20 years now). 

Tom 

Thank you every nice video   

York Rwys 402 in Snow near Dallastown PA

Eureka Municipal Rwy Line Car at Barn in 1939

P&N 5004

WB&A Freight Motors at the Washington Terminal

On the Savannah & Statesboro Rwy

Corry and Columbus 4 wheel car on the Brokenstraw Creek Bridge

Milwaukee, 1951. J.M. Canfield photo, James H. Yanke collection.  

I would like to know what is happening in this photo of trolley cars on Staten Island, NY. What colors were these car? There are few photos of Staten Island trolley cars posted on the internet. It would be nice to know more about Staten Island's trolley system.

mwb posted:

WB&A Freight Motors at the Washington Terminal

I used to jog along the right of way of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis when I lived in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

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#MWB. I want One!! 

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thanks for sharing... salute

My ride on the Yakima Valley. Don

One more inside the barn. Don

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mwb posted:

A PRT Coal Motor

That's D-7, which is preserved (but not restored) at the ECTMA in Scranton.  

www.ectma.org

Here's a couple. First Northwestern Pacific along the bay in Marin County. Then a nice shot of the Key system on it'sown right of way in Berkeley Calif. (Before the riots) Don