Random Photos of Trolley Cars

Well, I'll jump in on  this one.  My favorite trolley photo is of an Albany, N.Y. 4-wheel, double end, 4 door car.  I really don't know why this car appeals as much as it does to me.  It's just a well built vehicle, well designed to do a specific job.  I have a model under construction, and I'll post a picture of the model when it's finished.  (Don't hold your breath...I don't work fast).

Where in Albany did the trolley system run? Are there any vestiges of that trolley system left? I occasionally travel through Albany, so I am curious.

The Johnstown car is by Western Hobbycraft. The Lehigh Valley and Third Avenue cars are by MTH.

Lets see your trolley photos!

Somewhere in Brooklyn there is a trolley graveyard pit with many Third Avenue and BRT cars buried in it. Does anyone where the grave is, and something about its history?

Pittsburgh and New Orleans meet

BOBBY OGAUGE, I stumbled onto this site years ago.

I think you'll find something to interest your trolley taste here

http://newdavesrailpix.com/

JayJay,

Thanks for the link. I enjoyed visiting that site.

The "pit" is there but the cars were stripped and burned. Large metal parts were removed during the ww2 scrap drive. There is nothing to see. I remember riding the Peter Witts on route 68. I can still remember the sounds of the air compressors.

Here is one from my Brooklyn Neighborhood. Its 1945 and we are on Manhattan ave and Nassayu Avenue. That is a Graham avenue car coming at us and it has come over the double bascule bridge carrying Manhattan avenue to Vernon Boulevard and Jackson Avenue in Long Island City.

When the car passes us, it will wind its way down to Broadway and then head west at Flushing Avenue to Downtown Brooklyn at Sand Street and then ascend the Brooklyn Bridge crossing to Park Row In Manhattan. This route was one of a handful that connected three boroughs in the city.

I have dozens of trolley photos from my layout (MTH, Western Hobbycraft, Minitoy) recent and a bunch taken in the 1950s.

Here are a few:

Most of the old trolley cars were burnt and the metal was saved for scrap. The BRT dropped many old trolley bodies into a sand pit at 108th St. In Canarsie Brooklyn  on a short spur off the Canarsie line. TARS dropped trolley bodies into a pit at the Garden Ave shops in Yonkers. Other cars were sold to scrap dealers and other transit companies or burnt in many locations in the Bronx  and Brooklyn along with subway and elevated cars. Many el cars were burnt in 239th St. Yard, East 175th St. Along the NYW&B right of way and the Bronx River, Classon Point, Coney Island yard and probably more.

Is it time for Lionel to make a legacy trolley?

Museum items.......................

Susquehanna Traction Co #10 in Lock Haven, Pa

Penn Central Rwy #2 near South Fork, Pa

Lyle H. Cain's Toonerville Trolley

St. Charles Line streetcar on Canal Street Line in New Orleans

Riverfront Line along the Mississippi in New Orleans. The clerestory conceals air conditioning components.

The motorman is changing poles at the Uptown end of the St. Charles line in Carrollton, New Orleans

Riding the St. Charles line

A Lionel Birney trolley in a Reading paint scheme (6-83426) shares the Reading Society of Model Engineers layout with a Lionel M-10000

This stop: Plasticville union Station

Hi Bob... Here are some trolleys from my neck of the wood's......Google    Holyoke Trolleys: the Final Days.....You might see your car in some of the clips...

See you soon Gene

Another shot of Penn Central Rwy #2 near South Fork, Pa

Below is the restored PCC trolley in the Heinz museum in Pittsburgh. 

And here is a picture of a similar Corgi Pittsburgh PCC with an S gauge chassis running on my Christmas layout. 

Here are 2 trolley's in the Exporail in Montreal Can. We got to ride in the first one. It is a nice place to visit if you are ever in Montreal.

Lorain Street Rwy, Flat Motor

More New York & North Shore Traction cars on Long Island.

Stratford CT

Peck's Pond trolley disaster.

This is a followup to Gene's post regarding the trolley system in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Nice color movie of the Holyoke trolley system.

https://archive.org/details/Ho...TrolleysTheFinalDays

How about some vintage film of snow (ice) clearing operations in Ottawa?

Supposedly the system was knocked out for a few days because of this particular event:

---PCJ

 I always liked this early video titled "Trolley Ride Through New York City Early 1900s". Lotsa trolleys, no automobiles,  I suspect this is old Thom Edison and his new moving picture camera.....

Trolley in New Orleans.

Remember Nicky luv long time Storm 2017 NY

Fortescue J. Gi-raffe says, "Did somebody say TROLLEYS?" 

Mitch

Ohio Public Service RR Motor Flat 79

ITS steeple cab #104

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Fortescue J. Gi-raffe says, "Did somebody say TROLLEYS?" 

Mitch

Nice collection. What make is the 3rd from the left? I don't believe I've ever seen that before.

jonmuse posted:

Nice collection. What make is the 3rd from the left? I don't believe I've ever seen that before.

That's a freelance kitbash done by a chap in Springfield, MO.  It's an SF cable car body on an MTH bump and go chassis:

And, yes, I did.

Mitch

Hagerstown and Frederick #171

Roo.

Hey, Roo...I like that display of the partly buried trolley.  How about some more information.  Such as, where is it, the circumstances that led to it's display, etc.   Most streetcars worked long and hard...and did their job well.  It's good to see them memorialized.

          Logan

The trolley was pushed into the sand pit at 108th St. In Canarsie Brooklyn and came out the other end of the planet.