This Stadler DMU is seen southbound about to arrive at Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden.
Toronto Transit Commission 4611 Fleet Number: 4611 Built: 1951 System: Toronto Transit Commission Retired: 1995 Builder: Canadian Car & Foundry Acquired: 1996 Type: SE-DT Streetcar Status: Unrestored - Operational Class A-15 Rebuilt All-Electric PCC. Formerly Class A-8 car 4540.
A D.C. Transit streetcar heads north on 8th Street SE sometime in the late 1950s (or possibly a Last-Day-of-Service shot from 1962). The lead PCC car has just emerged to start its route from the red brick car barn on the right, now painted blue and known as the Blue Castle. In the rear is the Latrobe Gate to the Washington Navy Yard.
ThisT-48 Brill built in 1951 is seen operating on #12Powell.
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire...and get off at Elysian Fields. -- Blanche DuBois Tennessee Williams did not make up his streetcar out of whole cloth. It really did exist. The Desire line was established in 1920. In the 1930s, miles of…
SF Muni Car # 1076 on Embarcadero, F-Line, Washington DC Transit livery, Ferry Building, Streetcar, PCC model, built 1946
Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.
The northwest corner of 11th and Monroe Streets was once the turnaround for the streetcars that traveled along 11th Street. After streetcar service was discontinued in Washington, it was turned into a park.
A 2 car train of center entrance cars are seen on West Chester Pike on a rail fan special.
1512 at 18th & CNW February 22, 1957 Joe Testagrose Collection
Getting around Seattle without a car is easier than you think in this PNW city packed with public transit and pedestrian-friendly pathways.
This coach built in 1951 is seen in Cambridge about to enter the Harvard Tunnel.
For the first time in more than 50 years, a streetcar has returned to the streets of Washington, DC. While actual revenue service is still a ways off, at least one car is on the rails for testing. …
Ontario's government has some great news today for anyone who uses both GO Transit and the TTC during the course of their daily commutes. Starting ...
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[Photo courtesy of Flickr user rockcreek] Not only have the original streetcars long since disappeared from D.C.'s landscape, but the remnants of their old routes have also vanished. As such, it's...
14th Street & Colorado Avenue in 1961. The brick building on the far left is a Safeway. Taken off of Pinterest.
Pittsburgh faced the same pressures as other cities after World War II: suburbanization, urban renewal, and expressways. Unusually, the metropolis’s transit operator, Pittsburgh Railways, had chosen to go all-in on modernizing its streetcar system instead of introducing buses wholesale. Over 600 state of the art stre
The TTC and its neverending tour of the city will turn 92 this weekend. Loved, loathed, lauded, and pilloried for close to a century (sometimes at ...
