interesting memorial to public service streetcar tracks, Haddonfield, NJ

These tracks were found when the street was reconstructed. I worked on this project. The town put this in to commemorate the tracks.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122194145078558259&set=gm.26076364991970336&idorvanity=120835437949980

the Toonerville Trolley

I've heard the name, didn't know what it was, so I looked it up, and here's what the internet has to say:

a newspaper comic strip feature by Fontaine Fox, which ran from 1908 to 1955. It began in 1908 in the Chicago Post, and by 1913, it was syndicated nationally.

The single-panel gag cartoon (with longer-form comics on Sunday) is a daily look at Toonerville, situated in what are now called the suburbs. Central to the strip is the rickety little trolley called the "Toonerville Trolley that meets all the trains", driven in a frenzy by the grizzly old Skipper to meet each commuter train as it arrives in town.

and it is one ADORABLE tin toy 

http://www.massivefantastic.com/2014/05/video-james-gurneys-wonderful.html

the remnants the Pacific Electric Railway across Los Angeles

 

interesting variety coming to auction

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43248/lot/6735918-volkswagen-split-window-beetle

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43248/lot/6735936-american-lafrance-ladder-truck

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43248/lot/6735954-diamond-t-truck

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43248/lot/6735933-army-2-1-2-ton-6x6-dump-truck

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43248/lot/6735960-san-francisco-trolley-bus

With a total length of 48.5 miles, the Los Angeles Metro A Line’s new four-station addition makes it the longest of its kind in the world, and links 19 nearby college campuses.

https://secretlosangeles.com/la-metro-a-line-extension-college-campuses/

 

Have you seen the screen saver of the colorful monorail cars from Busan Korean?

Located in Haeundae Blueline Park, this pastel-colored Sky Capsule monorail offers a leisurely 30-minute journey along the coastline, panoramic views of the ocean, and surrounding landscapes in a  private, elevated journey. It only opened in 2020

The Haeundae Sky Capsule runs 7-10m up aboveground and travels along a 2km section of the park. There are 80 sky capsules in operation and each capsule accommodates 4 at a time.

https://agaonthe.run/how-to-spend-one-day-in-busan-my-unique-itinerary/

https://www.reddit.com/r/koreatravel/comments/10hixvr/everything_you_need_to_know_before_visiting/

https://www.bluelinepark.com/eng/skyCapsuleTime.do

https://thesmartlocal.kr/haeundae-blueline-park/

https://southkoreahallyu.com/haeundae-blueline-park-sky-capsules-beach-train-busan/

ever heard of the Pittsburgh trolleys that were painted in a wide variety of advertising and marketing themes? They were made obsolete in the 70's by GM's bus scam. One's been restored, and it's origin story, is due to a 9 yr old girl's letter to the mayor

Transit fans keep history rolling at the Northern Ohio Railway Museum (thank you George!)

https://www.ideastream.org/arts-culture/2025-07-25/how-an-ohio-museum-keeps-transit-history-rolling

National Capital Trolley Museum adds rare ‘Auto-Railer’

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/national-capital-trolley-museum-adds-rare-auto-railer

I've posted about these in the past https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/03/evans-streamliner-dual-purpose-rail.html

and https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/11/evans-products-co-auto-railer.html

the Brooklyn Trolley Group is looking to build a pre-1918 trolley fleet and are researching sources to either purchase or lease any NYC vintage cars. Either single truck (Brill 21E) or double truck cars.

Trolley cars were the basic public transportation in Brooklyn for much of the last century. Indeed, the Brooklyn Dodgers were originally the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, so named for Brooklynites leaping aside from oncoming trolley cars. (I didn't know that!)

The first urban light rail system began operations in New York City in 1832—two years before Brooklyn was incorporated into a city itself—as a small, boxy car pulled by horses over rails embedded in the street.

https://brooklyntrolley.org/

WOW! That's a way of advertising a dealerships inventory that I've enver seen before, and if anyone did that today, it would get ridiculous amount of free publicity

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, circa 1961

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=837927061026106&set=a.205848817567270

they fix old street cars, in Dallas, in a former mattress warehouse, now a restoration and repair shop, where Dallas’s newly acquired historic trolley cars are painstakingly restored and the current fleet is affectionately maintained.

When MATA founder Phil Cobb began revitalizing the city’s trolley system in the late 1980s, he visited a private collection in San Francisco and bought Rosie on the spot.

 Margaret was purchased in the mid-1990s, when a transit system in Toronto planned to scrap it. 

The car known as Betty ran in Dallas in the 1920s, but was eventually sent to the ranch of a Dallas Railway CEO, where his children and grandchildren used it as a playhouse. 

The street cars were cobbled together from various countries and across decades. 

For example, the car known as Emma came to Dallas from Brussels and has a narrower body, better suited for European streets. 

Matilda is much bulkier and ran for six decades in Melbourne, Australia before being shipped to Texas. Rosie was built in Philadelphia in 1909 and then shipped to Portugal, where it ran for 79 years before being bought by a private collector in San Francisco.  

Other than upgrading cars with safety features that include extra brakes, lights, and stop signs, MATA claims each car in the fleet is as close to original as possible.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dallas-trolley-car-barn

http://www.mata.org/support/adopt-a-stop/

1945 subway car used until the late 1980s, that's been restored and is in the Rockhill Trolley Museum, Pennsylvania was part of a New Jersey city scam, as what else have NJ politicians ever done?

the president of TCRT, as well as another company official and the owner of a local scrap firm all were later convicted in federal court on fraud and associated charges related to the rapid dismantling of the TCRT streetcar system, in order to replace streetcars with buses. 

New management took over TCRT in 1949, and was successful in finding buyers for its virtually new PCCs, selling the cars at bargain prices. 

Mexico City took the lion’s share, while Cleveland’s Shaker Heights Rapid Transit bought 20. Public Service Coordinated Transport, predecessor of New Jersey Transit, bought 30 cars for the Newark City Subway.

https://rockhilltrolley.org/new-jersey-transit-pcc-car-6/

https://tramsstophere.wordpress.com/page/4/

https://www.lhry.org/fundedprojects

1960s POV video made on a cable car in San Francisco (60fps, added sound w/ color remaster)

 

thanks Thomas M! 

Englewood CO

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/can-we-please-stop-hotlinking-pics/20411/page4268/

hmmmm, heavy railcars, steep hills, what could possibly go wrong? Were there no redundant safety precautions for the brakes? Hmmm, let me see, gravity plus wear and tear, yeah, who woulda ever thought? Especially after the 1st time in 1915? Or the 2nd in 1926? Well, there was a repeat in 1947

Seriously, who could ever predict that the rained on greasy cables would be less than perfect for applying brakes to? 

https://opensfhistory.org/news/2018/07/23/tillmanys-ride-a-closer-look/

San Diego, and that Ford dealership I heard about. Do I remember why? Nope

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-5893#post-12885675

Maybe it was the 1st Ford dealership in San Diego, maybe it was because the building is still there but now has some other tenant

I bet the train wasn't at fault... after all, it's never, ever, ever going to be sneaking up on soft air filled tires around a corner. It's stuck on those rails, and moves like clockwork

https://www.facebook.com/tpwca/posts/418380566275512

I don't think I've ever seen a "Stop" sign like this before... but some of you have, and recognized that it's a stop sign for the trolley car... (thanks Steve!)

 That PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) streetcar/tram is on Pittsburgh's No. 13 (Emsworth) route on Center Ave., just about to cross North St. That route was in operation from at least 1915 to September 3, 1966.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6058#post-12925181

Madison Street cable car on wooden cribwork during street regrade, Seattle, 1907

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_Electric_Co,_Madison_Street_cable_car_on_wooden_cribwork_during_street_regrade,_Seattle_(CURTIS_1472).jpeg