Random Photos of Trolley Cars

David98 posted:

Does anyone have photos of the Willow Grove trolley or the Willow Grove fair that ran at the end of the line in the summer? 

Here's a few happy snaps:  

http://www.subchat.com/read.asp?Id=1390476

Mitch 

Thanks, Mitch!

My grandparents met at the Willow Grove fairgrounds at the end of that trolley line, then married in 1938.   I guess you could say that's the reason I exist.

Does anyone have photos of the trolleys running at that time, or of the fairgrounds themselves?

David

David98 posted:

Thanks, Mitch!

My grandparents met at the Willow Grove fairgrounds at the end of that trolley line, then married in 1938.   I guess you could say that's the reason I exist.

Does anyone have photos of the trolleys running at that time, or of the fairgrounds themselves?

David

 

All I could locate with a quick search. Right place?

I have never been there, but my best guess is that you nailed it-thanks!

David

David98 posted:

Thanks, Mitch!

My grandparents met at the Willow Grove fairgrounds at the end of that trolley line, then married in 1938.   I guess you could say that's the reason I exist.

Does anyone have photos of the trolleys running at that time, or of the fairgrounds themselves?

 

Here's color movies from 1942:

Here's a promo movie for the park, circa 1956:

And Part 1 of a history of Willow Grove Park:  

Mitch 

History of Willow Grove Park,  Parts 2-5: 

Mitch 

And here's my rendition of Willow Grove terminal, as done using Lionel O27 track:  

Mitch 

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                                      https://youtu.be/SG3CjwmAWhQ

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                                          A South Shore train in HO scale...

Was in Toronto a few weeks ago and took these pics.

Was off-line for a few days or on a mobile that would not accept the links, so, Mitch, I just saw your Willow Grove Park video links.  Wow!  Thanks so much!

David

David98 posted:

Was off-line for a few days or on a mobile that would not accept the links, so, Mitch, I just saw your Willow Grove Park video links.  Wow!  Thanks so much!

David

Glad to help!   

Mitch 

    The Trieste–Opicina tram is an unusual hybrid tramway and funicular railway in the city of Trieste, Italy.

   https://youtu.be/bM80S7JNqAw

          Arrival at Opicina, passing loop, descending the funicular section and run from bottom of incline to Trieste terminus          https://youtu.be/ZvkVlb3zovs

Greenpoint Brooklyn. My guess is the time is sometime in very late 1949 or early 1950. That is because if you look closely, the trolley wires over Manhattan Avenue are double-strung, indicating they are ready to run the electric trolleybuses.soon and that happened around December 1949 and the movie showing at the RKO, "Montana" with Erroll Flynn, was released in January 1950. Photographer unknown.

More from Greenpoint Brooklyn. The Nassau Theater that was on the south side of Nassau Avenue between Manhattan Avenue and Leonard Street. This photo is from 1928. Note that the GG subway line had not yet been built so there is no subway entrance on the corner of Nassau and Manhattan. I believe the trolley shown was a shuttle that went along Nassau Avenue from Manhattan Avenue down to Gardner Avenue.

Horse cars that plied the Crosstown route from Long Island City through Greenpoint to Erie Basin Brooklyn, still there with busses

briansilvermustang posted:

 

Thanks for posting that Brian, pretty cool. What was the cart used for in front/behind the trolley, passengers as well?

I scratch built my lego trolley with what I had, and the center lights up.

Big Chet posted:

Horse cars that plied the Crosstown route from Long Island City through Greenpoint to Erie Basin Brooklyn, still there with busses

I've been really taken with the series of horse-drawn photos that Big Chet posted yesterday. How amazing to have this preserved example. And one relevant to you and your hometown.

But, it looks like the designers weren't quite sure what the design should look like this early on in the transportation story.  They got the function parts down but I'm not so sure about the form.

Then again, it looks perfect for the era, and I can easily imagine a toy version in cast iron or tinplate.  Or, this car shape evolving into an electified Toonerville Trolley style down the line (pun intended). :-)

But what has really held my attention and interest is the use of stained glass in the transom.  First, this feature is usually used for ventilation -- and if that was true that use is true here as well, I can't tell from the photos.  Second, is the use of the etched stained glass itself.  In my Diners, Trolleys, Railcars the real story thread I show two clear glass etched windows from a 1920s diner (the old ones were horse-drawn) and mentioned ruby-colored etched glass windows in a museum.   I then asked whether anyone had etched stained glass RR/trolley examples to post.*

The photo above is the first I've seen and the use on the colorful transom, especially interesting.  Obviously, stained glass makes more sense there than as the actual windows in the passenger compartment, but it still seems unusual.  Can any of you expand on this feature/example?

Thanks for posting,

Tomlinson Run Railroad

*Sorry, I'm on my iPad and it's too early in the AM to dig up the link. 

That is so cool  !!  The start of "mass transit".  Think about it, you didn't have to walk in the manure covered streets. Pollution people forget about.

Ottawa_Marc posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

 

Thanks for posting that Brian, pretty cool. What was the cart used for in front/behind the trolley, passengers as well?

I scratch built my lego trolley with what I had, and the center lights up.

 

                     pretty cool Marc, ran across a couple more ...

At the corner of High and Gay Strs in West Chester, PA

The caption is like a Burma Shave slogan. Do you see the erroneous word?

PST sweeper #2 at Llanerch, Pa

Somersworth, NH

Salt Lake City, Idaho

Spokane, Washington

Western Hobbycraft O-gauge trolley cars on my layout. The orange cars are Johnstown and the other is the Third Avenue Railway of New York City.

Abandoned in Salt Lake

Springfield Vermont Car

Somerset, Kentucky Street Car ???????

PST 86 in Philadelphia, Pa

The car is, I think, heading into the 69th St terminal. On the street to the left used to be Todd's Hobby Shop, wherein I spent numerous hours when in High School.

Atlantic Shore Line, York County, Maine

Dallas, TexasSanford Maine Utility Co.

York Utilities Co. @ Sanford, Maine