Subway, Elevated, Trolley & Traction Lines photos

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[ScaleCraft]

Can you explain the tower?

Door and one slit windows at ground level, looks like solid all the way to the roof.
Musta been a reason to spend time and money on something that appears to be form over function.

Not even any slots near the top to allow a bell to ring out.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Can you explain the tower?

No.

[healey36]

It reminds me of the water towers/cisterns built in Baltimore around 1905:



At least two of them are still standing, although no longer in use. The one in Roland Park on the north side of the city has a preservation group working to restore/refurbish it.

Is it my imagination, or is that one humongous trolley car?

[J. S. Bach]

It reminds me of the water towers/cisterns built in Baltimore around 1905

At least two of them are still standing, although no longer in use. The one in Roland Park on the north side of the city has a preservation group working to restore/refurbish it.

That one was in the middle of a trolley loop, then a trackless trolley loop, & finally a bus loop.

[healey36]

I drive past it frequently, as I have an SIL that lives on the southeastern edge of Roland Park adjacent to Stony Run. Like a lot of things in the city, the tower has been looking a bit shabby of late.

Capital Traction Company car at the intersection of 10th and F Streets, N. W. Washington, D. C.:



April 13, 1958.

[healey36]

State Street Station, Union Elevated Railroad, Chicago, 1971:



From the Library of Congress collections.

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[healey36]

Roberts Street, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1908:



From the Library of Congress.

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[healey36]

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[J. S. Bach]

Nice. That looks like a very, very early automobile on the far right. I see no evidence of hooves and what appears to be a lantern of some sort attached to the right hand side, probably on the front dasher.

[Rufus T. Firefly]