Seattle Water Front Street Cars Leaving Town

If you ever hear where they are going, please let us know.  I think they have been in storage for longer than five years.  

The funny thing is that the tracks and stations for that streetcar line are still there, though the don't connect to anything. I saw them a couple of weeks ago the last time I was there.
watched a guy off a cruise ship sit at one, impatient for the next train that'll never come...

Is this one of the Street Cars, that are leaving town?

Gary - Click photo to enlarge.

Wonder if San Francisco bought them? They have a number of them now. Don

Yes, that is one of the cars. And they have been in storage for ten years.  At one time I worked in the shop where they rebuilt the cars. Also, there are five restored cars and one derelict.

Detroit had street cars like this and they were sold to Mexico City, Mexico

1960's

Gary 

I don't understand the secrecy or why they can't answer a simple question about where the cars went? Is this a CIA deal? I don't get it.

I believe that some of them are coming to St. Louis.

 

Jeff C

Gary:

 

Yes, the Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR) did sell essentially their entire fleet of streetcars to Mexico City in 1956 but I believe they were PCC’s, one of which is in the photo below.

 

Bill

The city and county have stated in the local newspaper that the street cars have no value. What else is interesting is that they are currently installing the city's second modern street car line. This second line starts at one Sound Transit link light rail station and ends at another station ( short walk ) on the same line!

JOVILA,

 

You might try filing a request, under your state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), for copies of the documents transferring ownership of those items.  That might give you some clue as to where they went.

 

Chuck

Yet they sold them and got something and won't reveal to whom or for what? Maybe it's the local ambiance down at the waterfront that's covering up that smell of fish from Denmark

The new light rail system is not viable. It is simply too short. It should have been extended  in both directions. Specifically to volunteer park. And at the other end a right turn up the waterfront.