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Viewing Album:  Trolleys in the 1950s and 1960s
 
By:Lewis Schneider
Dates:1/1/1950 - 12/31/1965
Album Info:Almost all of the photos are PCCs, but there are a couple of surprises Cities include Boston, St. Louis, Shaker Heights, Washington D. C., Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Francisco,Johnstown, and Philadelphia
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Public Service Coordinated Transport PCCs pass at Orange St.
Title:  Public Service Coordinated Transport PCCs pass at Orange St.
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/30/1959  Upload Date: 4/19/2011 4:32:33 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  769   Comments: 0
PSCT PCC 26 Approaching Orange St
Title:  PSCT PCC 26 Approaching Orange St
Description:  Public Service kept their equpment in beautiful condition.
Photo Date:  3/30/1959  Upload Date: 4/19/2011 4:31:48 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  394   Comments: 0
PSCT Car Number 1 at Orange St.
Title:  PSCT Car Number 1 at Orange St.
Description:  I own an MTH O Gauge model of PSCT Car 6
Photo Date:  3/30/1959  Upload Date: 4/19/2011 4:31:06 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  358   Comments: 0
On the Johnstown Traction Company's Ferndale line
Title:  On the Johnstown Traction Company's Ferndale line
Description:  Behind the car is the bridge over Stoney Creek followed by a crossing of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
Photo Date:  9/13/1958  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 10:27:25 PM
Location:  Johnstown, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  1659   Comments: 1
Roxbury Ave Median Strip
Title:  Roxbury Ave Median Strip
Description:  As fascinating a line as youll ever see
Photo Date:  9/13/1958  Upload Date: 3/25/2011 9:20:45 PM
Location:  Johnstown, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  468   Comments: 2
Coopersdale Loop
Title:  Coopersdale Loop
Description:  Car is headed toward Roxbury. normally it would go to Ferndale. This was not a fan trip
Photo Date:  9/13/1958  Upload Date: 3/25/2011 9:27:18 PM
Location:  Johnstown, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  416   Comments: 0
Pittsburgh Railways Co Checking Route 39 at S. Hills Jct
Title:  Pittsburgh Railways Co Checking Route 39 at S. Hills Jct
Description:  No, this isn't Boston's Brookline. Back then checkers actually did their job
Photo Date:  12/27/1959  Upload Date: 3/29/2011 12:56:57 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PAT 1654(PCC)
Views:  669   Comments: 0
PCCs Pass at S. Hills Jct
Title:  PCCs Pass at S. Hills Jct
Description:  Always a lot of action at this spot
Photo Date:  12/27/1959  Upload Date: 3/29/2011 1:03:46 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PAT 1241(PCC)
Views:  534   Comments: 0
Route 77/54 PCC at S. Hills Jct
Title:  Route 77/54 PCC at S. Hills Jct
Description:  The famous "Flying Fraction" is a "pull out" from the storage tracks
Photo Date:  12/27/1959  Upload Date: 3/23/2011 10:12:58 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PAT 1423(PCC)
Views:  608   Comments: 1
Action at South Hills Jct
Title:  Action at South Hills Jct
Description:  Headways were amazingly close in the Mount Washington tunnel
Photo Date:  6/24/1960  Upload Date: 3/23/2011 9:53:42 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Tunnel
Locomotives:  PAT 1762(PCC)
Views:  1207   Comments: 3
Route 47 Carrick via Tunnel
Title:  Route 47 Carrick via Tunnel
Description:  PCC is approaching South Hills Jct
Photo Date:  6/24/1960  Upload Date: 3/23/2011 10:12:01 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PAT 1410(PCC)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
Route 40- Mt Washington
Title:  Route 40- Mt Washington
Description:  To the left was a magnificent overlook of Pittsburgh. Car is on Grandview at Bertha. Thanks to Fred Schneider for ID
Photo Date:  6/24/1960  Upload Date: 3/29/2011 1:02:27 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PAT 1650(PCC)
Views:  530   Comments: 1
Tight Squeeze on Route 40 - Mt Washington
Title:  Tight Squeeze on Route 40 - Mt Washington
Description:  Southern Ave just around the corner from Shiloh. Thanks to Fred Schneider for identification
Photo Date:  6/24/1960  Upload Date: 3/23/2011 10:14:06 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PAT 1650(PCC)
Views:  758   Comments: 4
Drake Loop
Title:  Drake Loop
Description:  This line once went to Washington PA
Photo Date:  12/27/1959  Upload Date: 3/23/2011 10:14:42 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PAT 1724(PCC)
Views:  692   Comments: 2
Route 87 - Ardmore
Title:  Route 87 - Ardmore
Description:  Heading east on Ardmore Blvd to E. Pittsburgh
Photo Date:  6/24/1960  Upload Date: 3/23/2011 10:15:31 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PAT 1729(PCC)
Views:  1129   Comments: 1
Baltimore Transit Company Walbrook Jct Route 15 terminus
Title:  Baltimore Transit Company Walbrook Jct Route 15 terminus
Description:  Once terminus of the fabled 35 Lorraine Cemetery line
Photo Date:  4/6/1956  Upload Date: 3/25/2011 9:34:39 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BTC 7072(PCC)
Views:  727   Comments: 0
Route 8 Towson-Catonsville near Catonsville Loop
Title:  Route 8 Towson-Catonsville near Catonsville Loop
Description:  The last stretch of right of way on the Baltimore system
Photo Date:  4/6/1956  Upload Date: 3/29/2011 1:06:09 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BTC 7147(PCC)
Views:  636   Comments: 0
Another shot of Route 8 in the woods near Catonsville Loop
Title:  Another shot of Route 8 in the woods near Catonsville Loop
Description:  The right of way connected Catonsville Loop with Federick Rd
Photo Date:  4/6/1956  Upload Date: 3/29/2011 1:18:02 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BTC 7132(PCC)
Views:  662   Comments: 0
Route 8 at Catonsville Loop
Title:  Route 8 at Catonsville Loop
Description:  Once this junction linked Route 8 with the famous Route 9 to Ellicott City
Photo Date:  4/6/1956  Upload Date: 3/29/2011 1:11:38 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BTC PCC(PCC)
Views:  1178   Comments: 0
Routes 8 and 15 on Eutaw near Fayette. Thanks to Fred Schneider for ID
Title:  Routes 8 and 15 on Eutaw near Fayette. Thanks to Fred Schneider for ID
Description:  National City Lines wanted to keep the final two trolley lines running, but the city wanted them off the streets
Photo Date:  4/6/1956  Upload Date: 3/29/2011 1:16:44 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BTC 7100(PCC)
Views:  640   Comments: 0
8 Towson Car headed west on Fayette from Guilford
Title:  8 Towson Car headed west on Fayette from Guilford
Description:  Another identification from Fred Schneider. Apparently cars were being re-routed the day I was there.
Photo Date:  4/6/1956  Upload Date: 4/2/2011 4:29:55 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BTC 7089(PCC)
Views:  462   Comments: 0
Baltimore Transit Co PCC 7132 turns from Eutaw into Redwood EB
Title:  Baltimore Transit Co PCC 7132 turns from Eutaw into Redwood EB
Description:  Note 15 Overlea car following. Thanks to Fred Schneider for ID. He thinks this was a temporary routing
Photo Date:  12/31/1965  Upload Date: 4/2/2011 4:30:12 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BTC 7132(PCC)
Views:  632   Comments: 0
The 7132 has completed its turn from SB Eutaw into Redwood and is now backing from Redwood into Eutaw. It will then proceed northbound
Title:  The 7132 has completed its turn from SB Eutaw into Redwood and is now backing from Redwood into Eutaw. It will then proceed northbound
Description:  National City Lines wanted to continue operating Baltimore's last two trolley routes but the city said no!
Photo Date:  4/6/1956  Upload Date: 4/2/2011 4:43:12 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BTC 7132(PCC)
Views:  502   Comments: 0
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Line S
Title:  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Line S
Description:  8th & Western Aves. PCC operation ended March 1963
Photo Date:  9/1/1962  Upload Date: 3/25/2011 9:42:02 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
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Views:  576   Comments: 0
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Line R terminus at West 3rd and Wilton Place
Title:  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Line R terminus at West 3rd and Wilton Place
Description:  Note the narrow gauge tracks
Photo Date:  9/1/1962  Upload Date: 3/25/2011 9:43:38 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
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Views:  473   Comments: 0
PTC Route 50 Rising Sun-Ktorr
Title:  PTC Route 50 Rising Sun-Ktorr
Description:  Ex Kansas City PCC headed north on S. 5th St
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/11/2011 9:55:45 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  483   Comments: 0
Philadelphia Transportation Company Route 13 Yeadon via Chester emerging from the Woodland subway
Title:  Philadelphia Transportation Company Route 13 Yeadon via Chester emerging from the Woodland subway
Description:  Baltimore St. to the left and Woodland to the right. 40th St. has been closed off in conjunction with a modernized passenger waiting area
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/2/2011 11:03:56 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  375   Comments: 0
Philadelphia Transportation Company Route 11
Title:  Philadelphia Transportation Company Route 11
Description:  Car is crossine the Baltimore and Ohio tracks in Colwyn. Thanks Fred Schneider for the ID. I thought this was Darby
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/2/2011 11:04:28 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  538   Comments: 1
PTC Route 36- 94th and Eastwick on Island Ave
Title:  PTC Route 36- 94th and Eastwick on Island Ave
Description:  This center reservation track still operates today (2011)
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/2/2011 11:03:18 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  874   Comments: 0
PTC Route 36 headed toward 94th and Eastwick
Title:  PTC Route 36 headed toward 94th and Eastwick
Description:  This line once went to Chester PA. The loop ahead of the car is in a swamp
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/2/2011 11:02:44 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  577   Comments: 1
PTC Route 15 on Girard near 31st crossing the Baltimore and Ohio RR
Title:  PTC Route 15 on Girard near 31st crossing the Baltimore and Ohio RR
Description:  My 1957 Chevy is parked on the right
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/2/2011 11:04:15 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Sbhneider
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Views:  493   Comments: 0
Red Arrow Bullet Cars at 69th St Terminal
Title:  Red Arrow Bullet Cars at 69th St Terminal
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/11/2011 9:58:50 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PSTC 203(Interurban)
Views:  512   Comments: 0
Another Bullet Car at 69th St Terminal
Title:  Another Bullet Car at 69th St Terminal
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/11/2011 9:59:27 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PSTC 0(Trolley)
Views:  478   Comments: 0
Red Arrow 69th St Terminal
Title:  Red Arrow 69th St Terminal
Description:  The St. Louis Car Co Number 15 is on the Media line
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/11/2011 9:56:23 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  376   Comments: 2
Outbound Red Arrow car at Lansdowne Ave
Title:  Outbound Red Arrow car at Lansdowne Ave
Description:  Car is signed for Sharon Hill
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/11/2011 10:02:40 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PSTC 22(Trolley)
Views:  359   Comments: 0
Inbound Red Arrow car at Lansdowne
Title:  Inbound Red Arrow car at Lansdowne
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/11/2011 10:03:17 PM
Location:  Pfoutz Valley, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PSTC 17(Trolley)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
Inbound Red Arrow St. Louis Car Co trolley at Lansdowne
Title:  Inbound Red Arrow St. Louis Car Co trolley at Lansdowne
Description:  Looks like some extra riders are boarding
Photo Date:  4/11/2011  Upload Date: 4/11/2011 10:01:39 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PSTC 17(Trolley)
Views:  413   Comments: 0
Inbound Brilliner approaches Lansdowne Ave
Title:  Inbound Brilliner approaches Lansdowne Ave
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/1960  Upload Date: 4/11/2011 10:00:28 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  PSTC 5(Trolley)
Views:  717   Comments: 0
Route 10 Delmar crossing Grand at Olive
Title:  Route 10 Delmar crossing Grand at Olive
Description:  Note buses on Grand, which had replaced trolleys only a few months before
Photo Date:  6/28/1960  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 9:12:07 PM
Location:  Saint Louis, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BI-STATE PCC(PCC)
Views:  580   Comments: 0
Saint Louis Public Service Co Delmar Loop terminal of the 10 Delmar line
Title:  Saint Louis Public Service Co Delmar Loop terminal of the 10 Delmar line
Description:  Buses replaced the 05 Creve Coeur line. Note remnants of connecting tracks down Kingsland Ave to the left. The first few years of my life were a short distance to the left of this photo.
Photo Date:  9/8/1959  Upload Date: 3/25/2011 9:09:36 PM
Location:  University City, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  909   Comments: 0
10 Delmar WB on Olive just west of the CBD
Title:  10 Delmar WB on Olive just west of the CBD
Description:  My notes say the temperature ws 105 degrees!!
Photo Date:  8/20/1962  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 9:45:43 PM
Location:  Saint Louis, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BI-STATE PCC(PCC)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
De Baliviere carbarn
Title:  De Baliviere carbarn
Description:  Tracks in front are the 10 Delmar line between Saint Louis and University City
Photo Date:  9/8/1958  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 9:38:05 PM
Location:  Saint Louis, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BI-STATE 1661(PCC)
Views:  553   Comments: 0
Route 10 Delmar EB between Union and Kingshighway
Title:  Route 10 Delmar EB between Union and Kingshighway
Description:  This speedway was once center right of way
Photo Date:  9/8/1958  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 9:36:57 PM
Location:  Saint Louis, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  BI-STATE 1674(PCC)
Views:  471   Comments: 0
Route 14 at old junction with the 01 Kirkwood Ferguson
Title:  Route 14 at old junction with the 01 Kirkwood Ferguson
Description:  The 01 branched to the left. This section was abandoned in September 1940 when the 01 was cut back to Big Bend Loop
Photo Date:  9/6/1958  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 8:21:41 PM
Location:  University City, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  557   Comments: 0
Route 14 University Clayton along Millbrook Blvd
Title:  Route 14 University Clayton along Millbrook Blvd
Description:  This right of way was abandoned in February 1963
Photo Date:  8/26/1962  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 8:25:51 PM
Location:  University City, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  356   Comments: 0
Route 14 University Clayton.STLPS's final PCC 1799 at Forsythe and Central
Title:  Route 14 University Clayton.STLPS's final PCC 1799 at Forsythe and Central
Description:  Far in the distance in the midst of the trees is Walinca Wye terminal
Photo Date:  6/28/1960  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 9:51:24 PM
Location:  Clayton, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  494   Comments: 0
Route 14 looking north from Walinca Wye towards Clayton
Title:  Route 14 looking north from Walinca Wye towards Clayton
Description:  The bridge once carried the tracks over the Rock Island railroad. Metrolink now follows the RI route
Photo Date:  9/8/1959  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 10:11:15 PM
Location:  Clayton, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  653   Comments: 0
A minute ot so later at Walinca Wye
Title:  A minute ot so later at Walinca Wye
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/8/1959  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 8:47:22 PM
Location:  Clayton, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  383   Comments: 0
Route 14 Terminus Walinca Wye
Title:  Route 14 Terminus Walinca Wye
Description:  Once the 04 Clayton continued down the wye to Wydown and Skinker and 01 Kirkwood cars passed on the foreground tracks
Photo Date:  9/8/1959  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 8:28:19 PM
Location:  Clayton, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  465   Comments: 0
Route 14 PCC 1614 ready to return downtown
Title:  Route 14 PCC 1614 ready to return downtown
Description:  It has backed out of the wye on to the northbound track of abandoned Route 01.
Photo Date:  9/8/1959  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 8:45:26 PM
Location:  Clayton, MO
Author:  Lew Schneider
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Views:  231   Comments: 0

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