Subway, Elevated, Trolley & Traction Lines photos

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Schaefferstown, Pa building the trolley line...



the battery operated trolley line...



overhead wire trolley line....Ephrata & Lebanon Railway

[healey36]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

Interesting trucks on that car.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Interesting trucks on that car.

Think I have a set or 2 of drive trucks with something very close to those except those look to have the ends bent down a bit with end blocks added spanning the sideframes. Interesting detail to consider adding.

[healey36]

When I blow it up, I realize now that the one end of each truck frame is partially in the shadow of the journal box (?), so it looks weird. The springs look huge, but it might just be their position that makes them look that way. Very unusual, at least to me.

[healey36]

British Columbia Electric Railway Company:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Jim K]

Howdy. I'm sure there are inaccuracies but Socash even asks for input for clarification on some items!
Enjoy.

Jim K

Baltimore Streetcars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzgdXToK-4

[healey36]

Thanks for posting the link, Jim. That's a dedicated group of folks over at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. Haven't been there for awhile, but I used to take my kids once each year back when they were young. I don't think we ever rode the same motor twice. Back then, they were fortunate to still have guys on-hand that had actually worked for the Transit Company; not sure if that's still the case.

There's quite a bit of the streetcar infrastructure still around. One of my favorite buildings in the city was the old Baltimore Traction Company's power house originally built for the Druid Hill cable railway. Most of it has been torn down, but a chunk remains:



A Romanesque Revival style building, it was a spectacular pile in its day. Located at the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and Retreat Street, it's mostly a vacant lot today in a part of the city that looks like Dresden in 1945.

Another repurposed building is the old power house and car barn that now houses the Charles Theater, and of course there's the "Power Plant" at the inner harbor that was built by a predecessor of the United Railways & Electric Company for power generation. The massive car barn over on Washington Blvd. now serves the MTA bus fleet, and throughout the city, there are still street-side shelters built by the transit companies, some of which now serve as bus stops.



There's still a lot of remnants around.

[Jim K]

Thanks for sharing. I think several of those old car barns, especially if made from brick, do survive. The one in Cleveland on State Road didn't.

Jim K

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[J. S. Bach]

Nice conversion of what looks like a former passenger car.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice conversion of what looks like a former passenger car.

And a 2nd one like like parked right behind it.

[J. S. Bach]

And a 2nd one like like parked right behind it.

A different body style, nice use of obsolete equipment.