Take a closer look at the details that make streetcars and their infrastructures unique and wonderful. This program was recorded from a Zoom meeting on January 24, 2022. Narrated by Aaron Isaacs.
The "cattle guard" discussed at 42nd and Lake Harriet may have been to keep automobiles off the right of way. There is a very similar array of naked ties at the bottom of the selby tunnel where the right of way turns into the street which I think is Kellogg Boulevard. I have seen pictures of it in the recent picture book on TCRT.
Interesting that you guys call a "switch iron" a switch rod. The term "switch iron" is basically universal. In Philly, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, New Orleans, Boston and just about every place else calls it a switch iron. I've never heard them referred to as switch rods any place else. At 13:10, those things are called window guards. Regarding coal stoves on the old cars, all of that labor, cost and mess, when the PCC cars arrived, it must have been an amazing improvement. Not only for the employees, but for the passengers. The TCRT should have bought hundreds more PCC cars in the late 1940's. It's a wonder the riders and city didn't demand it. Imagine the operator operating a smooth, quiet, fast electrically heated, foot pedal operated PCC car, compared to that old equipment. Even boarding was easier on a PCC car.
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The "cattle guard" discussed at 42nd and Lake Harriet may have been to keep automobiles off the right of way. There is a very similar array of naked ties at the bottom of the selby tunnel where the right of way turns into the street which I think is Kellogg Boulevard. I have seen pictures of it in the recent picture book on TCRT.
Interesting that you guys call a "switch iron" a switch rod. The term "switch iron" is basically universal. In Philly, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, New Orleans, Boston and just about every place else calls it a switch iron. I've never heard them referred to as switch rods any place else.
At 13:10, those things are called window guards.
Regarding coal stoves on the old cars, all of that labor, cost and mess, when the PCC cars arrived, it must have been an amazing improvement. Not only for the employees, but for the passengers. The TCRT should have bought hundreds more PCC cars in the late 1940's. It's a wonder the riders and city didn't demand it. Imagine the operator operating a smooth, quiet, fast electrically heated, foot pedal operated PCC car, compared to that old equipment. Even boarding was easier on a PCC car.
Always so exciting to find a section of old streetcar tracks poking out from the asphalt that had covered it years ago.
😳 Promo`SM!!