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I remember riding those buses. A trolley is not a subway car. Maybe the original subway cars were wooden, but they don't even have them in the Subway Museum. A very long time ago there were trolleys in Manhattan. My grandma used to talk about them, but she was born in 1900. When I was a kid, you could still see some of the trolley tracks in parts of Manhattan's streets, besides the cobblestones. They have long since been paved over.
Los Angeles used to be covered in rail from the Pacific Electric Railway. In the 1920's the vast majority of L.A. got around via this railway that spanned all over the Southland.
A small portion of the Pacific Electric Railway operates Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the San Pedro neighborhood from the cruise ship terminal at the Port of Los Angeles to the 22rd Street Marina, passing through the "downtown" San Pedro area. Replicas and restored "Red Cars" from 1909 operate on the railway.
I had no idea about this! I am definately going to check this out the next time I'm out there. Thanks for posting!
The only other place in the U.S. that I know of that runs heritage equipment is San Francisco. They run heritage trolleys on the F-Market line, using a mix of U.S. and international cars.
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Here's what they did last Sunday when I was on it. Scroll to about 1:30 and you can see all the people dressed up in swing era clothes and dancing, singing. It was AMAZING
Boston doesn't do ***** **** like that because all the subway cars are a hundred years old and falling apart anyways. And so are all the houses. Old is only cute to the heathen outside 128, it's just a given for the rest of us.
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