A fun place to go if you are in Southern California is just south of Riverside in the town of Perris is the railway museum. It started out as the Orange Empire Trolley Museum. It is now the Southern California Railway Museum. They have a lot of restored trolley cars and other equipment from the huge Pacific Electric system that ran in the Los Angeles area. You can take rides on the trolley cars, and on passenger coaches pulled by either electric, diesel, or sometimes steam locomotives. Also available is learning how to drive the equipment. Just thought I'd pass that along.
Across North America the direct demise of "trolleys", streetcars and interurbans lay at the feet of General Motors, their bus division in fact. GM priced buses at or below production cost knowing they would make money on parts replacement. This has been well documented with several books written about what happened.
The historian was looking for the word "trolley bus" to describe electric buses that ran on overhead wires. They still use them in Dayton, Ohio. Several years ago, they were placing new asphalt on South Main Street in Burlington, Iowa. When they removed the old asphalt, the trolley tracks were still there.
I love hearing stuff like this, it is very interesting to see what’s buried right underneath our feet’, as someone who enjoys history, there is so much that is all around us. That is beneath us people on a daily basis don’t even realize cause they just do not stop to look around or even think.
“Progress,” that means the people won’t like what is going to be done but it will open more land for development and increase the tax base for government thus bringing more people and traffic congestion.
The Pacific Electric "Red Car" system was not built to make money, it was built to sell real estate. People had to be convinced they could easily get to work no matter where they lived in Los Angeles County. Florida East Coast Railroad in Florida was also built to sell real estate.
Now that's the kind of news story I like to hear and watch! Thanks ABC4!
Replacing trolleys/streetcars with endless lanes for cars is one of America’s greatest tragedies.
Thank Henry Ford he lobbied for it
A fun place to go if you are in Southern California is just south of Riverside in the town of Perris is the railway museum. It started out as the Orange Empire Trolley Museum. It is now the Southern California Railway Museum. They have a lot of restored trolley cars and other equipment from the huge Pacific Electric system that ran in the Los Angeles area. You can take rides on the trolley cars, and on passenger coaches pulled by either electric, diesel, or sometimes steam locomotives. Also available is learning how to drive the equipment. Just thought I'd pass that along.
Across North America the direct demise of "trolleys", streetcars and interurbans lay at the feet of General Motors, their bus division in fact. GM priced buses at or below production cost knowing they would make money on parts replacement. This has been well documented with several books written about what happened.
The historian was looking for the word "trolley bus" to describe electric buses that ran on overhead wires. They still use them in Dayton, Ohio.
Several years ago, they were placing new asphalt on South Main Street in Burlington, Iowa. When they removed the old asphalt, the trolley tracks were still there.
I think one thing every generation can agree on is "trains(trolleys) are cool"
That was fascinating! Thank you!
Very cool!
I have been a qualified operator at a trolley museum for more than 40 years. Look for a museum when you travel and ride mass transit whenever you can.
I love hearing stuff like this, it is very interesting to see what’s buried right underneath our feet’, as someone who enjoys history, there is so much that is all around us. That is beneath us people on a daily basis don’t even realize cause they just do not stop to look around or even think.
In England no matter where you dig there is stuff that's hundreds of years old, even pre-Roman settlements have been found.
Can we bring these trolley lines back?
This is the kind of news I'll tune in to. 😊
Well maybe we should put the trolley tracks back... We also should build the Rio Grande Plan
Take note where they are UTA because you will have to put them back if you decide to extend service over there for the Olympics.
Electric powered public transportation, before internal combustion.
“Progress,” that means the people won’t like what is going to be done but it will open more land for development and increase the tax base for government thus bringing more people and traffic congestion.
The Pacific Electric "Red Car" system was not built to make money, it was built to sell real estate. People had to be convinced they could easily get to work no matter where they lived in Los Angeles County. Florida East Coast Railroad in Florida was also built to sell real estate.
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