100 years ago Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and other cities provided special trolley cars for funerals to transport the mourners and casket

In the days of unpaved roads and horse-drawn hearses, the trolley funeral car offered a more dignified ride to one's final resting place. In the early 19th century, most funeral attendees didn't own cars, so the funeral trolley offered a practical alternative - especially since almost every church, funeral home and cemetery was near a trolley stop.

Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's black funeral trolley, the 'Hillside' was named for a cemetery in July 1912 and served at least 30 cemeteries along trolley lines until service was discontinued in 1930.

In their heyday, funeral trolleys were quite popular. In 1907, Chicago's funeral elevated car was doing 22 trips per week.

The 'Descanso' streetcar in Los Angeles is the only funeral trolley still in existence and is displayed at the Orange Empire Trolley Museum in Perris, CA. Built in 1909 and available for chartered use by funeral parties at a cost of about $25, it was quite successful in its day.

 Motorized hearses did not become popular until the late-teens and early 1920s, when most major city streets had been paved.

The first motorized hearse was a custom conversion based on a 1905 Rambler Surrey and used by an undertaking firm in Fresno, California. In 1912, a large, custom-built omnibus was built on a Packard truck chassis to carry a casket as well as 32 mourners. It was sold to the Flannery Brothers Funeral Home in Pittsburgh, PA.

 Philadelphia's J.C. Brill, a large manufacturer of trolley cars, offered a somber dark-green funeral bus in 1915 but the idea never caught on with the public.

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