To find out more about this year’s photo challenge here on Travel Words, please read this post.
This week I am going to look at San Francisco Streetcars. Red ones naturally.
Birmingham, Alabama, PCC Car, 1077, built in 1947. This car’s exterior commemorates Birmingham, Alabama, which operated PCC streetcars from 1947 to 1953. When streetcars were a new technology, around the turn of the 20th Century, it was common for systems to be owned by the local electric utility.
Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. PCC Car, 1007, built in 1948. This car commemorates Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. (PST)–the ‘Red Arrow’ lines serving Philly’s western suburbs–which ran interurban cars with some PCC features from 1949 to 1982.
If you want to learn more about San Francisco’s historic streetcars and cable cars then please visit the Market Street Railway Museum.
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Oh fabulous! You’re quite keen on San Francisco, aren’t you?
It just happens to have lots of trams ! 😂
Good choices, Jude. I like old trams. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
Trams are very nostalgic, even when they are still running, and your pictures capture that. They still hold on to the excitement they must have held when they were new.
Though my title does not suggest it, there is a transport link, I promise! https://susanrushton.net/2021/08/08/red-flowers/
Oh, great! Today I shall hunt out red trams…..
Very handsome!
Lovely photos, and I will definitely take a look at the museum! Thanks for the link.