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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Arkansas (streetcars, trolleybuses, etc)..............

https://newdavesrailpix.com/odds/star/star.htm
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 12:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Having a hard time keeping up!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider wrote:
Having a hard time keeping up!


Cyberider:

No problem.......I'll give you some time to catch up and enjoy all the photos! Wink

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Streetcars in the Portland area.........

https://newdavesrailpix.com/odds/or/or.htm#ps

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Quite a collection of equipment including the ex-PE Hollywood cars.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And then we have these from Portland that went to the PE.

https://newdavesrailpix.com/odds/or/htm/pee03.htm
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider wrote:
And then we have these from Portland that went to the PE.

https://newdavesrailpix.com/odds/or/htm/pee03.htm


Cyberider:

Indeed, recalling the halcyon days of the "REd Electrics" to and from Oakland Pier, and its ferry connections!

What I find interesting in this photo is that there is no storm door on the lead car, where the headlight is mounted; instead, the front end of the car is "solid"...........

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting.........

It would seem that the earliest use of the slogan, "RIDE THE BIG RED CARS", goes back to the earliest "IER" days, beginning in 1939, when the ESPEE's "Red Electric's" began operating ove Bay Bridge.

In the excellent book ""RAILS TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY" (Demoro/Sappers) there is an illustration showing the cover of an early "IER" tt (1939), with "RIDE THE BIG RED CARS" at the top of the timetable cover...........

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The straight passenger cars did have the storm door. See:

https://newdavesrailpix.com/odds/or/htm/pee06.htm

These cars were called the "Portland Twelves" on the PE and MU'ed with PE's own 1200's. They were sent to PE around 1927 and don't think any of them went to the Bay area. These were "Red Electrics" but not "blimps." Shorter and narrower.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider:

"Blimp Jrs"! Wink

Indeed, one can clearly see the differences between the Portland electrics and the ESPEE's cars that operated out of Oakland; interestingly, when new in 1911, the Oakland cars did not have porthole windows.

These cars were later modernized with the portholes, recalling the LIRR and PRR "MP-54s" and the PRSL electrics (ex-West Jersey & Seashore) which operated out of the Camden ferry terminal until just after WW2,,,,,,,,,,

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The MP-54"s and the PRSL cars sure had tiny portholes, at least compared to the blimps and even the Portland cars.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The MP-54"s and the PRSL cars sure had tiny portholes, at least compared to the blimps and even the Portland cars.


Cyberider:

I've seen photos of early London Underground (sub-surface lines) cars and some 1920s-era Berlin "U-Bahn" cars that also had portholes......

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wisconsin........

https://newdavesrailpix.com/odds/wi/wi.htm (note the preserved CTA "6000"!) Wink

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Washington (state).........

https://newdavesrailpix.com/odds/stwa/stwa.htm

(excellent collection of both handsome streetcars and interurbans)........ Very Happy

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 8:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

An interesting aspect to streetcar/electric railway operations.......

Several electric railways/street railways also, at one time, also operated ferries.

PSNJ operated several busy ferry crossings in NY Harbor until 1943, when the lines were sold to private operators.

The Key System's orange ferries connected with their trains at the railway's ferry pier, for the short crossing to the Ferry Building.

In Boston, the Boston, Revere Beach, & Lynne (electrified in 1928) operated connecting ferriyboats into Boston until the railway was abandoned.

The TCRT also operated small ferries, as extensions to their streetcar lines.

Also, the SN's "RAMON" (the only electrified rail ferry in the nation) once carried both interurban trains and freights)

Electric Railway-operated ferries indeed makes for an interesting subject, indeed..... Wink

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See:

https://newdavesrailpix.com/msp/msp.htm

(click on "PRESERVED" link for a group of good photos showing the TCRT's charming little ferries!)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 1:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

EXCELLENT collection of rare, historic photos of TCRT's charming "streetcar boats".......there's a LOT here to savor! Wink

https://streets.mn/2021/11/08/when-the-twin-cities-had-streetcar-boats/

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