25 is original, rebuilt in '76.
15 is all new. The cars wear different liveries to represent different cable lines, and also the different paint schemes that were used at different times.
Car 54 is an original from the California Street line. The octagonal structure has a signal man for the crossing.
Car 5 is an original, rebuilt in '56.
Car 13 was built new. Powell cars are single ended, and must be turned.
The Powell and California street lines cross. California street cars are double ended, with 2 grip positions. Car 56 is an original car from the O'Farrell, Jones and Hyde, which also used double Enders.
Some of these cars are original. Of course refurbished. Some were built new. Let me grab my notes...
Beautiful piece of equipment! I'd say it's better than new!
And the turntable and street look so clean you could eat off 'em! Not that I'd try though...
Ascending Powell : grades run up to 17%.
On the table at Powell and Market.
https://www.streetcar.org/tag/ofarrell-jones-hyde-line/
Check it out ! The original line from back in the day !
There is a section that the cars ran Against traffic on a one way street !
"Classic Trains" did a "Big GG1" issue several years back, a good one too.
Turns out the original GG1 shell was designed by an gent from the PRR's engineering department named Donald Dohner. It was "...almost, but not quite there..." as far as looks go.
What Raymond Loewy did was use the Dohner shell and take it the rest of the way into the GG1 we're all familiar with. It's much better looking than the Dohner concept.
Famous industrial designers of the 1930's. Otto Kuhler, Henry Dreyfus, and the renowned Raymond Loewy, who did so much to shape the image of the PRR.
When he first came to the Pennsylvania to offer his services he was an unknown quantity, so they gave him the job of redesigning the trash cans in Penn Station. He must have done an amazing job, for next they gave him the GG1 assignment. The engine was complete mechanically, but the body was covered with visible rivets. Loewy's contribution was a sleek welded body, and the now famous 5 thin stripes that arc down and almost meet in the front. Sheer genius !!!
Not to mention the look of the unique and very stylish T1 Duplex. His touch is very tasteful once again in the Cleveland PCC's.
Penny Trains Here's what a PCC looked like in Cleveland Railway colors: Raymond Loewy designed the scheme. My favorite Cleveland transit photo: Ummmm....maybe we should have built the line somewhere else?
Here's what a PCC looked like in Cleveland Railway colors:
Raymond Loewy designed the scheme. My favorite Cleveland transit photo:
Ummmm....maybe we should have built the line somewhere else?
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Penny Trains Postwar Paul Maybe someone with a sharp eye might be able to identify some of the others ? I recognize this one: RTA (Regional Transit Authority) succeeded CTS, the Cleveland Transit System.
Postwar Paul Maybe someone with a sharp eye might be able to identify some of the others ?
I recognize this one:
RTA (Regional Transit Authority) succeeded CTS, the Cleveland Transit System.
Paul
Thank you !
I've seen that paint scheme, but couldn't place it.
Postwar PaulMaybe someone with a sharp eye might be able to identify some of the others ?
Well, at least it illustrates the paint scheme !
Boston has a top notch transit system. The green line goes to North Station, which shows on the front of one of the cars. My daughter and I used to play with these wooden trains when she was small. Still means something to us, but not a serious model...
She gave it to me as a momento...
Yes! The drive mechanisms are awesome! Definitely go if you are in the area!
Regards, Roy
Flintlock76 Penny Trains Avert your eyes if you're the sensitive type.... https://www.abandonedamerica.us/end-of-the-line and also: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/03/15/abandoned-america-trolley-graveyard/425043002/ Now if "taggers" would just stop vandalizing them the owner would be a much happier person. Try this... https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-trolley-graveyard I fail to understand why anyone would collect an assortment like this just to let it rot. Maybe I should be fair and think maybe he's tried to sell them off but has had no takers. According to the article he does sell the parts. In the meantime it looks like nature's trying to reclaim the lot of them.
Penny Trains Avert your eyes if you're the sensitive type.... https://www.abandonedamerica.us/end-of-the-line and also: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/03/15/abandoned-america-trolley-graveyard/425043002/ Now if "taggers" would just stop vandalizing them the owner would be a much happier person.
Avert your eyes if you're the sensitive type....
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/end-of-the-line
and also: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/03/15/abandoned-america-trolley-graveyard/425043002/
Now if "taggers" would just stop vandalizing them the owner would be a much happier person.
Try this...
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-trolley-graveyard
I fail to understand why anyone would collect an assortment like this just to let it rot. Maybe I should be fair and think maybe he's tried to sell them off but has had no takers. According to the article he does sell the parts.
In the meantime it looks like nature's trying to reclaim the lot of them.
The only ones I can I.D. are the Boston cars- the green ones with the " T" on the side. Maybe someone with a sharp eye might be able to identify some of the others ?
Penny Trains I bought a 1:48 cablecar kit so I could try to model this: Note the destination board.
I bought a 1:48 cablecar kit so I could try to model this:
Note the destination board.
O.K., by the clothes, I'm figuring this shot to be '68, give or take....
Sad to see them end up this way !
There's a great museum out here :
" Orange Empire", they've got a lot of Pacific Electric and L.A. Transit stuff.
Also a Ward Kimball barn, the last time I went !!
S gauge track is almost the perfect gauge for a 1/48-scale cable car.
Bob Nelson
lionelsoni Is there anyone who hasn't seen this? https://www.loc.gov/item/00694408
Is there anyone who hasn't seen this? https://www.loc.gov/item/00694408
Thank you !!!
You can see an evolution in transit in this film:
a horse car
cable cars
electric trolleys,
not to mention the " horseless carriages" and the horse pulled goods wagon.
In the early '60's, my family took us to San Francisco, and this was when PCC's ruled Market street. They were stopping and starting with the traffic lights in heavy city traffic. Wheels slipping with each sudden start. Pretty amazing.
I loved S. F. as a kid: cable cars and PCC's !!
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