There are a LOT of Pacific Electric cars still out there, too.  

What is the story of this fine trolley car? Where did it operate? The curtains are interesting. It is a 12-window car which is not common.

A few photos of the Como- Harriet streetcar in Minneapolis, taken in 2008.

Bobby Ogage posted:

What is the story of this fine trolley car? Where did it operate? The curtains are interesting. It is a 12-window car which is not common.

Conestoga Traction Co., Lancaster, PA. 

https://lancasteronline.com/ph...2c-5f408ea0e9fe.html

Yep, beat me to it.  There is a vintage photo on ebay of a Conestoga car (same or similar) with a notation that it's a Brill product.  

Conestoga transportation CO John Denney JR. collection

https://youtu.be/X83KzogcWzg

     Conestoga Traction Co. trolley car pulling up to the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Lancaster in 1946

The sole survivor of Conestoga Traction, owned by the Manheim Historical Society.  They are calling it a Birney but I believe it's actually a Brill?

https://lancasteronline.com/ne...ea-3bb57bd5bc59.html

                                      236...   https://youtu.be/zizaT2OguEU

If memory serves me correctly, the Birney patents were assigned to a holding company (National Safety Car Co.??), and Birney's were built by many of the car builders of the time...Brill, American, St. Louis Car, and Cincinnati (not to be confused with their own 4-wheel lightweight) and maybe others.   So unless I'm mistaken, it's entirely possible for a car to be both a Brill...and a Birney...which I believe is the case with this one.  There's a lot more info on Birneys on the web, including a site devoted exclusively to them

                                                                                                     Logan

Thanks all for educating me about Conestoga Traction. Here are some more trolley cars.

I suspect that this sight seeing car was custom built by its traction company. Can anyone tell us its story?

This is Delancy Street at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge in Downtown, New York City. Underneath Delancy Street there is another large trolley terminal that is being made into a park.

Interurban car in Sodus, New York

This is 601 in Queensboro Plaza on Long Island before she was painted orange & cream. 601 was the last trolley to run in New York City. Unfortunately it was left to rot at a museum.

Mexican (Veracruz?) open car #19 at IRM, taken 7/4/2011.

RailKing Pittsburgh PCC car.  I recall going to the big city in college and always thought these cars looked neat.  As a country boy, I found some of the strange angles intersections in downtown Pittsburgh to be a challenge to know when to cross the street.  One day I thought I was looking at the correct light and started across then realized I picked the wrong light as one of these cars came by.  It was a close call!   

Bobby Ogage posted:

 

This is 601 in Queensboro Plaza on Long Island before she was painted orange & cream. 601 was the last trolley to run in New York City. Unfortunately it was left to rot at a museum.

It looks like 601 is still in her attractive New Bedford paint scheme in that photo.  She lives on as her remaining parts are being used in the restoration of Scranton Transit #505, the last surviving electromobile.  

https://twitter.com/Trolley505

https://www.gofundme.com/new-d...scranton-trolley-505

http://www.ectma.org

Ashville, North CarolinaRemanufactured by Gamco, Milan's Peter Witt traveled in Italy for 70 years, and now one transports guests in Mount Pleasant, Iowa

In 1963 Queensboro bridge car 601 was in immaculate condition stored in the St. George railyard. At the time i helped sand down and touch up a few rust spots. Somebody should go to jail for letting it be destroyed.

The same fate as what happened to some other traction-transit cars stored in that "Museum" called TMNY

IT looks like they need some work.

Seen at the "big E" this past January!

Hagerstown & Frederick

Some Brill interiors

Keystone posted:

Some Brill interiors

I knew what line that was from the instant I saw the photos - Lehigh Traction Co. (NOT Transit!).  One half of the car was outfitted with stationary benches so the coal miners wouldn't ruin the rattan walk overs on their way home from work.  One of those cars still exists, built into a cabin at an "undisclosed location."  Maybe someday.

Montclaire posted:

Keystone posted:

Some Brill interiors

I knew what line that was from the instant I saw the photos - Lehigh Traction Co. (NOT Transit!).  One half of the car was outfitted with stationary benches so the coal miners wouldn't ruin the rattan walk overs on their way home from work.  One of those cars still exists, built into a cabin at an "undisclosed location."  Maybe someday.

Good eye Montclaire.

My railroad has the same kiosk.

Pics I have taken in various locations.

Those folks are ready for som snow, Brian!!!

Building trolley lines in New York City with street cars still running! The complexity of the track-work is amazing.

          WOW !!

briansilvermustang posted:

Wow!  I had heard that there was a double ended traction rotary snow plow, but this is the first time I've seen a picture of it.

Years ago I tried to kitbash one in HO scale, using two Athearn rotary snowplow "blowers", and an express reefer for the body.  Lack of information killed off my enthusiasm for the project.

Stuart

texastrain posted:

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I believe this one is a former Philadelphia and Western/Red Arrow/SEPTA 60 series car, extensively remodeled. 

Mitch

Bobby Ogage posted:

Building trolley lines in New York City with street cars still running! The complexity of the track-work is amazing.

When you consider they were a) dealing with conduit, and b) said conduit had 600VDC running through it...well.  

Mitch 

Stuart posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

Wow!  I had heard that there was a double ended traction rotary snow plow, but this is the first time I've seen a picture of it.

Years ago I tried to kitbash one in HO scale, using two Athearn rotary snowplow "blowers", and an express reefer for the body.  Lack of information killed off my enthusiasm for the project.

Stuart

 

The Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven, CT owns what is believed to be the only surviving one or only one that still functions. I've seen it moving about the yard area, although it is missing it's exterior carbody sheathing, no doubt a long-ago restoration project that ran out of steam.

---PCJ