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One of Washington, D.C.'s colorful street cars stops in front of the city's railroad station, November 1961. Although they are called trolley cars, in Washington the trolley was below the street and the collector received power through a slot in the street. Washington Union Station served the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & ohio and Southern railroads. |
RAPID TRANSTI DISTRICT The two-car train of Kinki-Sharyo-built cars 121 & 115 is on Pacific Avenue, in Long Beach, and has just begun its hour-long trip to Los Angeles. Two-car trains are the norm on the route. The red strip amoung the blue ones is in memory of the "Big Red Cars" of the Pacific Electric: the line uses the ex-PE 4-track line through Watts on its journey from LA to Long Beach. |
Car 272 was built in 1927 by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (M&MTB) and ran on the 200-mile Melbourne, Australia, trolley sys- tem until acquired by Seattle Metro for service on the 99-Waterfront trolley line. The car has a top speed of 25 m.p.h., with a capacity of 52 seated and 40 standing passengers. Operation of the initial 1.6 miles of the Waterfront trolley line began on June 5, 1982, and the downtown exten- sion to the International District station of the trolleybus tunnel opened on June 23,1990. |
TRANSIT AUTHORITY DALLAS, TEXAS CAR 369 Built by Melbourne in 1925 this W-2 class car was acquired by MATA right out of active service in 1985 and was extensively remodeled and re- finished. It is the largest and quietest car of the MATA fleet, and with its plush seats, is favorate car for private parties. |
Articulated cars 123 and 120 cross the Steel Bridge, completed in 1912, Portland, Ore., July 22,1989. The upper level of the bridge carries the LRVs and street traffic while the lower level the trains of BN, SP, UP and Amtrak. The LRVs were built by Bombardier at Barre, Vt., under license from the Belgian firm of Constructiones Ferroniaries et Mettaliques. |
inbound on the N-Judah line at Irving and Ar- guello, June 21, 1991. The Municipal Railway of San Francisco operates the Light Rail Vehicles. |
Seen in regular service, car No.311 crosses a bridge in Johnstown, PA in 1959. built in 1923, this double-truck Birney has been restored and can be seen in operation at the Rockhill Trolley Museum, Rockhill Furnace, PA. |
The old and the new. The new, Baltimore's new LRV rail system with car 5009 signed for Camden Yards, November, 1992. The old, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Camden Station provides the background for this scene. |
The McKinney Avenue Trolley Line in Dallas, Texas, had Birney car 636 decked out with a Valentine for a Valentine's Evening Charter. This eye catching image is made against the modern Dallas skyline. February 15, 1992. |
Denver, Colorado's Regional Transortation District's new light-rail transit system, due to open on October 7, 1994, has fourteen stations along a 5.3 mile Central Corridor. Car 110, one of eleven 87 foot long cars built by Siemens-Duewag, 1993-1994, is seen at the Light Rail Operations Center. |
Oporto (Portugal) Transport built car 187 is shown fully rehabilitated, with doors added, in 1993 street running on South Main Street, Memphis, Tenn. No 187 was built to Brill blueprints, in 1927. |
PCC cars 3087 and 3252, built by Pullman- Standard in 1945 and 1946, respectively, bask in the late afternoon sun at the Mattapan Terminal of the MBTA's Mattapan-Ashmont "High Speed Trolley Line" in August 1982. In 1994 the only remaining active PCC cars in Boston are the twelve rebuilt "wartime" PCCs used on this line. These all-electric cars, oufitted with Westinghouse electrical equipment, are 46 feet long, 100 inches wide, and have 41 seats. Streetcar operation between Mattapan and the Ashmont terminal of the Red Line began in December 1929. The line utilizes the rights-of-way of the former New Haven Railroad Old Colony Shawmut and Milton branches. |
A train of light rail ASEA-Brown Boveri articulated cars makes its way under decorative arches on Howard Street. Baltimore's Central Light Rail Line is brand new in this May 1992 scene. |
Top Photo: TMER&T route 15 car 868 rolls north on Oakland Avenue in Whitefish Bay, WI, on 12/26/52. Built by St. Louis Car in 1920, the car was one of Milwaukee's first 99 lightweights. Route 15 went trolleybus 11/15/53. Bottom photo: The last remnants of Milwaukee's interurban system became Speedrail in 1949. The brief experiment ended after a tragic collision in 1950. Originally built by Cincinnati Car in 1929 for the Indianapolis & S.E., car 60 moved on to serve InterCity Rapid Transit, Shaker Heights, and finally Speedrail, where it is shown entering service in 1949. Speedrail quit in 1951. |