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Third Avenue Lightweight Streetcars

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, March 9, 2023 5:16 AM

Further correrction.  Believe I got it correct this time:

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 5:48 AM

Improved the photo of 384 on Warburton Avenue at the Haqstings-Yonkers Town Line:

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, March 20, 2023 8:06 AM

North of Gettys Square, tracks on North Broadway used by 2, 6, and 7, both directions, and 5 and 9 southbound only.

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, April 20, 2023 2:19 AM

Back to West Farms Square in The Bronx, with the el.evated structure and 177th Street Station used by the 2 and 5 in the background.

152 on "C" is ex-Manhattan, one of earlier, 1936, home-built lightweights, 672, on the T, one of the newest, 1939.

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, August 22, 2023 11:16 AM

627, pictured in an earlier post at the Bowery and 6th Street, Manhattan, March, 1947, got trolley poles in June, and is in The Bronx, Southern Boulevard and Berratto Street.

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 7:36 AM

180 was a conduit car, used on both "T" Third & Amsterdam Avenues, as in on a previous posting on this thread.  Summer, 1947, it got poles and is in this poto onn Boston Road, north of Southern Blvd. intersection.  371 was also an East 65th Street Shop prodeuct and was always a pole car, assigned to Ogden Avenue.  A year earlier than this photo, both cars would have been convertables, a year later buses,

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