Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm working on it for next year.
I'll get there one day.
Nev.

I'll hold you to it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Panhandle Traction Co. in WV......... Curve side converted to a freight motor?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Capital Transit in 1945.....

[healey36]

Lots of great pic's here, including a few of the H&F:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/46633980@N04/sets/72157623615965735/

[Nev]

Marty.
I like your latest photo.
Wonderful.
Nev.

[rogruth]

Lots of great pic's here, including a few of the H&F:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/46633980@N04/sets/72157623615965735/

Healey,

Didn't get anything. ????

[healey36]

I see what you mean, Roger...sometimes it connects and other times not.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

On the Cabin John line of the Capital Transit...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Chevy Chase........

[healey36]

The Baltimore street-cars I remember from when I was very young were the Witt cars (photo courtesy of M. E. Borgnis):



While they were introduced in the 1930's, there were still a number of them in service in the late 1950'a and early 1960's, especially on the southwestern side of the city. My recollection is that you entered at the front and exited at the center. Originally I think there was a motorman at the front and a conductor at the center, and you paid your fare at the center. By the late 1950's the fare box had been moved to the front next to the motorman, as the system had gone over to one-man operation (which was better accommodated by the next-generation cars).

Regardless, my most enduring memory of the streetcars was my grandmother yelling at me to keep my hands inside the windows. I don't recall attempting to hang out the windows, but she lectured me endlessly on the fact that one could get their arm torn off by a brush with a utility pole. Adults could be such joy-killers.

No. 6146 was manufactured by Brill and entered service in 1930. Here it is seen at the Belvedere Loop in 1950.

There's an urban myth in Baltimore that the street-car tracks were simply paved over after the conversion to buses, and that street-car service could be easily reintroduced by clearing away the black-top that entombed them. In fact a high percentage of the trackage was torn up, either immediately or over the intervening years.

Healey

[rogruth]

Around my home area of Wheeling,WV it seemed like the street car tracks in paved streets in towns were paved over
but the tracks in unpaved streets and roads out of towns were removed. This is probably not a general rule.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Conestoga Traction #48

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Given that last photo and the Chevy Chase photo, I cannot resist sharing this shot. I hope this is not a tiresome repeat (I've lost track.)

[MurphOnMillerAve]

..and how 'bout this for the Altoona and Logan Valley Brill...
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Conestoga Traction #51