Philadelphia Suburban Transit #76 at Scranton Station! Run by the Electric City Trolley Museum! (2018) (Source in Image!)
Philadelphia Suburban Transit #76 at Scranton Station! Run by the Electric City Trolley Museum! (2018) (Source in Image!)
A few old Septa Trolleys and locomotives that are part of local history. On display at the Electric City Trolley Museum, and at Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, PA. (OC) imgur.com/a/wv9Bx
The city of Washington DC built a small electric trolley that goes between a few important buildings, problem is it cost $1.6 million and no one uses it because it’s waaaaay to slow, slower than walking in fact
Fascinating Youtube video about the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway, an electric trolley line that ran between the two cities in the early 1900s youtube.com/watch?v=TbcUt…
Riding a 99 Year Old Trolley at the Connecticut Trolley Museum! youtu.be/C_GcKGBXAnA
When you're at the Trolley Museum, you get some interesting stuff rolling by. v.redd.it/1m8rsur20q571
Fascinating Youtube video about the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway, an electric trolley line that ran between the two cities in the early 1900s youtube.com/watch?v=TbcUt…
Before "The Hop" Milwaukee had a robust mass transit system that made use of electric trolley cars. Link goes to part one of these trolleys. Taken in 1957 one year before they were discontinued. youtube.com/watch?v=uqFOd…
TIL the first recorded instance of a person being killed in a motor vehicle collision in the US was in 1899. Henry Hale Bliss, a real estate dealer, was stepping out of a trolley car in NYC when an electric-powered taxicab struck him. Bliss hit the pavement crushing his head and chest and soon died. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dea…
Today in History: On this day in 1947, Tompkins Avenue trolley line service was discontinued in New York City. - New York Transit Museum on Instagram instagram.com/p/Bm3O-ZMnj…
TIL I learned that General Motors, Standard Oil, Firestone Tire, Mack Trucks, and Phillips Petroleum were all convicted of monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines and its subsidiaries in an effort to eliminate the competing electric trolley car. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen…
TIL The New Orleans, St. Charles Streetcar line is the oldest operating trolley line in the world. Originally horse drawn, the current electric streetcars are nearly 100 years old and each are a National Historic Landmark. The streetcars were desegregated in 1867 remained that way until 1902. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.…
a look back: photo of Salt Lake City’s trolley system
The Steamtown National Historic Site is a national park and museum in downtown Scranton. It is a complex of buildings built between 1899 and 1932 featuring a functioning roundhouse and turntable, and tours on the last remaining line of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's once massive trolley & El train system.
Does anyone know what this is ?I found it at the Trolley Museum I volunteer at
Homemade electric trolley riding over abandonned railroad track - Bridges and tunnels youtu.be/rHe4Glfuf8k
[PL][OC] Electric shopping trolley driving on the bike lane youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7tm…
Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad #8 at the Petaluma Living Trolley Museum! Shes Awaiting Trucks!
TIL Boise, Idaho used to have an electric trolley system which was discontinued and paved over. Some tracks have been unearthed during recent construction projects in the city. sps.boisestate.edu/idaho/…
Homemade electric trolley riding over abandonned railroad track - Bridges and tunnels youtu.be/rHe4Glfuf8k
TIL The Los Angeles Dodgers got their name due to fans having to dodge Brooklyn's complex network of trolley cars, which killed over 130 people in the first 3 years of operation. With horse drawn trolleys, the horse would stop. The all new electric trolley cars, however, would plow right over you. gizmodo.com/the-la-dodger…
Spent the day down at the trolley museum and crossed the mississippi. I got to explore an old baggage tunnel underneath the train station. reddit.com/gallery/juxnxq
The Steamtown National Historic Site is a national park and museum in downtown Scranton. It is a complex of buildings built between 1899 and 1932 featuring a functioning roundhouse and turntable, and tours on the last remaining line of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's once massive trolley & El train system.
PATH PA-3 Car 745, abandoned at WTC on 9/11 and rescued from the rubble, coupled to R-17 6688 at the Shoreline Trolley Museum
Between Museum and Central - a new Sydney electric train on a section that forms part of the then new City Underground, the first stage that included Museum and St James Stations which opened on 20th December 1926 - Source: Fairfax Media Archives
TFW you're trying to transfer from the Subway to the Trolleys at City Hall
Hiking Trolley Trail in Ellicott City, we made a new friend! reddit.com/gallery/mxznvu
Between Museum and Central - a new Sydney electric train on a section that forms part of the then new City Underground, the first stage that included Museum and St James Stations which opened on 20th December 1926 - Source: Fairfax Media Archives
After a significant effort over a number of years, the Temora Aviation Museum successfully performed a test flight with their English Electric Canberra TT.18 WJ680. Outside of NASA’s fleet of three WB-57 Canberras, WJ680 is presently the only currently airworthy example of the breed anywhere in the warbirdsnews.com/warbird-…
Skookum electric drive haul truck with a trolley cable assist youtube.com/watch?v=JhqgV…
A former La Mesa police officer detained a Black man outside a trolley station without reasonable suspicion of a crime and later falsely said in a police report the man had been illegally smoking, an apparent attempt by the officer to justify the detention, according to records released by the city sandiegouniontribune.com/…
TIL The origin of the LA (formerly Brooklyn) Dodgers team name was shorted from "Trolley Dodgers", when electric street trolleys first came out they were faster than the previous horse drawn ones and accidents were frequent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los…
Lady hit by Trolley and no one cares?! Arthur was right, The City is indeed filled with 'slime and reptiles'.
History museum eyes move to Oregon Electric Station kezi.com/content/news/His…
A WCM 1 preserved at the ICF Rail Museum, Chennai. This loco was developed by English Electric and Vulcan Factory for the Indian Railways.
