When I was a kid of about 17, back in the late 1960s, I used to hang out at the SP yard near downtown. A switchman befriended me and later we became friends since he was also the father to a close friend of my mom.
Anyhow, He had a long career with the SP and he told me that in the 1940s, he used to ride the streetcar to work and back.
In the 1970s, there was still a short stretch of streetcar track exposed on 11th Street just south of McDowell, I think it was, right next to the hospital. That was the only remaining track I recall seeing in Phoenix. I'm sure it's long gone now - that was 50 years ago.
Actually, in the 1970s, there was actually more remnant track still in existance in Tucson.
Regards,
Fred M. Cain
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Actually, now that I think of it, I believe it was Tenth street - not 11th. 11th street doesn't even exist in that particular vicinity.
Looking at Google Earth, the neighborhood has changed so much that it's hardly recognizable today from the way I remember it. That seems to be the case throughout mush of the greater Phoenix area.
Looking at Google Earth, there are no trolley tracks visible on Tenth street.
-FMC
The February 2022 issue of Arizona Highways magazine has a six page article on the Phoenis Street Railways ( with photos going back to the horse car days ). It includes a plug for the Phoenix Trolley Museum: https://www.phxtrolley.org
and its efforts to restore two PSR trolleys.
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