wow check this out
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I can only assume you're a youngster, they used to run all the time.
yeah that bring backs memories I remember seeing them in person as I use to live about 30 miles from Philly brings back memories man I'm starting to feel old lol
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Rode one very similar to that one in San Fransisco some years back.
Seattle's Waterfront Trollies before they were shut down due to rebuilding and relocation of the maintenance facility.
Bill T.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
thats awsome i am glad to see some american history still around. I get excited to see old school trains running.
That Philadelphia car is a "Presidents' Conference Committee", or PCC, car. They were designed before WWII by an organization of street railroads. They were an extraordinarily good design and were used not only in the US but all over the world. Although they were intended to be a standard design, individual railroads customized them, as they seem to do with any rolling stock. I rode them extensively in the 1960s on the MTA in Boston, where some are still in regular use. It seemed that no two were exactly alike, since the MTA bought cars second-hand from other cities.
I remember being struck by the fact that the prominent vertical handrail that one would likely grab when boarding was always wrapped with black insulating tape, presumably for the possibility that the car would not be grounded by the rails. As you can see from the Wikipedia article, this could have been a problem because of the unprecedented use of rubber in the wheels and suspension, which had to be bypassed by jumpers to keep the car grounded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCC_car
Bob Nelson
That trolley line is a half mile from my house, and still running between Media and 69th st. Philadelphia. The old trolley shown in the video has a restored example on display at SEPTA headquarters in Phila. The public can go on it, and my grandkids love to pretend they are "driving" it.
Ybor(pronounced Ebor) City FL, about three miles outside of Tampa FL has a running trolley line, still in service.
Another city that I was told about is Kellybunkport Maine, it is said that they have a working trolley line as well. Have not been there, so not 100% positive about a running trolley line, maybe a museum.
Where I grew up in Reading Pennsylvania the trolley tracks were never removed, just paved over and the tracks keep coming up when the pavement wears down. Trolleys ran before I was born, and I think the Reading Company ran the trolley line, not 100% sure on that though. Now they have Barta(Berks Area Rapid Transportation Authority) bus service in Berks County.
Lee F.
Charlotte, NC is in the process of building a new street car line through city center.
It will initially operate with the trolleys that Charlotte already owns and will eventually be upgraded to use tram type streetcars.
http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/cats/planning/streetcar/overview/Pages/default.aspx
Toronto had a very large fleet of PCC cars back in the Seventies, when I lived there. Although I've been gone for many years, I see that they have greatly expanded their trolley -- er, I mean Light Rail, of course -- system with all-new, modern cars.
If anyone out there needs electrical information for the Toronto PCC cars, I have the Toronto Transportation Commission schematics from 1945.
Check out this site:/www.neworleansonline.com/tools/transportation/gettingaround/streetcars.html
You can still ride the streetcars (they are ALMOST a trolley!) in New Orleans for $1.25. They are a great way to glimpse the Crescent City.
Using our camera, the conductor took a picture of my wife and me behind the controls at the end of the line before the return trip. Friendly people and a must trip if you go to New Orleans.
wyomingscout
"ALMOST a trolley"? They look like trolley cars to me.
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