I road the 56 and the 23 trolley for years good times thank you Bernard

We used to buy a bag of ptc tokens for the trolley to go to school. Memories!

Ich auch bin 1974 nacht frankfurt angekommen

I work at the Pikes Peak Trolley Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the mid-‘90s we got 9 former Philadelphia PCC cars. Car 2129 was one of those. In fact, that was the exact car we have kept operational to this day. We sold another one, and the remaining 7 are on static display. May we please display your picture at 0:44 at the museum?

Hello, I would actually be interested in all the photos that were taken of line 21 in the Obere Ziegelei area. My question would be whether you could possibly make these photos available to me? Of course, you can also do so for an amount of money of your choice. The photos can be found in Part 1 and Part 2. I would be very happy about an answer. Thank you!

Thank you for the upload. I rode the pcc cars in the 70s, and 80s but, I never saw a street car 🚃 like that.

It almost makes you want to reverse the time machine & go back to that era for awhile, sigh.

...da werden Kindheitserinnerungen wach.... Danke fürs Teilen!

❤️. 9:25: my old neighborhood. i loved 3157 on the watertown line. the silence is refreshing.

Did I see some old cable car tracks?

What kind of trucks is she on? Looks like B2 minus the track brakes

Sehr schön!!! Meine Eltern waren Gastarbeiter aus Griechenland,in Darmstadt-Griesheim, in 1968!.... Ich war damals Grundschüler und dann Oberstufenschüler . Ich habe die schönsten Erinnerungen. Ich vermisse diese Jahre und die netten Menschen. Wir kamen 1976 zurück. Schade, denn ich bin ein guter Schüler. Ich habe nur die deutsche Oberschule besucht. Tolle und einzigartige Zeiten für uns alle.

The M3’s are greatly missed, just like their recently retired MTA R32 cousins

Where is 2799 nowadays?

Wow to cool back in Philly, old school PTC looks so good. Today SEPTA is not the best look. I think the trolleys back in those days were cool.

Aren’t they still running those cars on the Mattapan line?

What a big GOVERNMENT WASTE , METRO SUCKS NOW !!

These are great films taken by Mr. Saloman, he must have been kind of cold waiting and filming these. As much as I liked all this, it was a lot of work for everyone to plow the line and keep it all going. Thank you.

2:50

Miss the 47 trolley. I used to ride it from Godfrey Ave, to 5th and Erie.

Miss those old autos

Does it go near H.L. Grand five & dime in Bethlehem? Or was it Grant?? Ben Franklin??

When Philadelphia was beautiful.

My friend and I went on that ride several times and each time it was a great experience we traveled from Brooklyn New York just to ride this trolley line as it was featured in Traction and models a traction fans magazine, I wish they never stopped running that trolley line nothing else like it in the country.

It's a heartbreaker seeing all these electric streetcar lines operating shortly before they were converted to diesel bus--when many of the rolling stock were relatively new PCC models.

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It was a good idea especially if they used the buses on the rails to a certain point and then transitioned to road to create new routes combining the rail and roads. However as mentioned the other comments the buses would not meet crash worthy standards operating on main line railroads or even with conventional trolleys. That is why most transit companies tried bus exclusive right of ways where they had the advantage of exclusive use of the highway and no traffic to contend with. The speed and acceleration would also be an issue. The trains or trolleys being all rail have a more efficient energy transfer and provide higher acceleration and top speed.

I was a Canadian university student in 1972 and I was studying linguistics, including German. The German government found me a summer job and I worked at the Hauptwerkstatt that summer. Boring work, but I learned lots of German!

This is not the 50s, it's late 1940s.

Nice video. Thanks for sharing.

Sadly, because of declining ridership in March 1956, the Strafford Branch of the Philadelphia and Western Railway was discontinued. Closing 10 stations west of Villanova.

Thanks John this is great! I live right next to the old Hodimont line which Trialnet is hoping to turn into a walking and biking greenway. Sure would love to have the streetcars tho! Thanks again.

I lived at Germantown Avenue and Cambria Streets in the mid 1950s until mid 1960s. The 23 (PCC cars then) was my lifeline between Our house and Center City and South Philadelphia and Chestnut Hill. I rode almost daily. They were very fast and efficient for the most part; sadly now replaced by lumbering buses.

It's interesting to see two Strafford cars MU'ed at 1:20 . In spite of riding the line since the early 1960s that's the first time I've seen them paired up. FWIW at one point the Strafford cars *were* designed for full MU operation with pass-through doors etc. but they were later rebuilt to close off their ends.

Thank you very much🧡👍 for the beautiful picture´s from a past which is now 51 years ago - unbelievable that the Miniskirts wearing Teenage Girls in this Video are now 70 years old Grandma´s.😳

Thank you very much for this beautiful picture´s from a past which is now 51 years ago - unbelievable that the Teenage Girls in the Miniskirts shown here are now 70 years old Grandma´s...😳

A nice treat from days gone by. Thank you.

I rode the 46 many times. The 42 was a PCC car

EI EI; WIE HABBE MIRS dann,kommsch dann nibber uff die anner Seit ! Gell ?

Sad to note that they gave up the trolley private right-of-way to convert to buses on the Ardmore line. A "busway" is a contradiction in terms!

I'd never heard of this (was in Europe, I guess). Very interesting. In he early 70's I used to take the P&W from Norristown to 69th St (and then some), but never heard anything about it. It's reminiscent of the Triple Crowns that still run on limited service in the West.

Nice. For American cities, dismantling of the streetcar systems often meant/or was simultaneous to the dismantling of those cities.

Da war Darmstadt noch Darmstadt jetzt nur noch Ausländer und 🤬 Flüchtlinge Gott sei Dank bin ich weg nur noch auf Besuch in dieser grünen verseuchten Stadt.

I could imagine the heartbreak the cinematographer must have felt when he was taking these "farewell" films of trolleys that were soon to disappear.

Classic and cool looking.

Final loss of mail and express bankrupted the whole coast to coast national private rail system Oct 1967. The highway lobby lead by GM did this. Trucks are not cheaper nor faster. And air mail today is gone except to Alaska.

I just LOOOOOOOVE streetcars! You know? PWG

Pittsburgh's a nice town. My dad lived there in the 90s. Still traces of the original streetcar tracks and brick streets at that point. May still be.

Great photos. Just Google Viewed the Butler Brothers Building and surrounding area--seems like attempts are being made to get people living downtown. I hope it works out.

if I was born in the 90s I would've loved the SEPTA Trolley Fest