TRANSPORTATION: TROLLEY TRAIN SUBWAY LIGHT RAIL BUS CITY : UNITED STATES: CITIES: PHILADELPHIA: PENNSYLVANIA : PHOTOGRAPHY AND PICTURES: Philadelphia En Route to Returning as One of Five United States Cities with Trackless Trolleys
David P. Dillard
TRANSPORTATION: TROLLEY TRAIN SUBWAY LIGHT RAIL BUS CITY :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: PHILADELPHIA: PENNSYLVANIA :
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PICTURES:
Philadelphia En Route to Returning as
One of Five United States Cities with Trackless Trolleys
The other cities include Boston, San Franciso, Seattle and Dayton, Ohio.
Cites other than these will probably be added in due time.
Philadelphia has had a history of trackless trolley cars going very far
back.
Route 80
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer222.html>
Out of Service
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer223.html>
A Brill Trackless
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer204.html>
Brill T-30
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer238.html>
A Pullman Standard
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer206.html>
Route 61 Brought Trackless Trolleys into the Heart of Center City
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer207.html>
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer213.html>
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer248.html>
This Route 59 Terminus at Bells Corner Did Not Look Like This When Test
Car 800 Visited This Trackless Trolley Loop
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer226.html>
But to get to Car 800, PTC and SEPTA Had to Go Through Some Other
Generations of Trackless Trolley Vehicles
Route 66 Gregg Steet Loop with Vintage Trackless Trolley
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/tt092.html>
Same Vintage Car at Route 59 Castor Bleigh Loop
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/tt090.html>
These Cars Also Ran from Southern Depot on Routes 29 and 79 in South
Philadelphia
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer225.html>
Then in the 1950's These Cars Came to the Route 66, Route 59 Got Similar
Cars Earlier. A Budd Made Frankford Market Elevated Subway Car is in the
Background.
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/tt097.html>
Bells Corner Again
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer235.html>
A 59 Car at the Margaret Orthodox Terminal, the Market Frankford Elevated
Subway Station in in the Background.
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer217.html>
A 66 Car on its Route
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/volkmer234.html>
These Cars Also Saw Service on Route 75
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/tt095.html>
These Trackless Trolleys Replaced These Double Ender Trolleys Used on
Route 66 on Frankford Avenue Here Shown at a Major Mayfair Intersection.
<http://diamond.temple.edu:81/search/Xmayfair&searchscope=
10&SORT=R/Xmayfair&searchscope=10&SORT=R&SORT=RZ&extended=
0&SUBKEY=mayfair/1,46,46,B/l962&FF=
Xmayfair&searchscope=10&SORT=R&17,17,,0,0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
These are the AM Trackless Trolley Cars That Replaced the Marmon
Harrington Trackless Cars Shown Immediately Above.
<http://diamond.temple.edu:81/search/Xtrolley+and+frankford&searchscope=
10&SORT=D/Xtrolley+and+frankford&searchscope=10&SORT=D&Submit=
Search&SUBKEY=trolley%20and%20frankford/1,2,2,B/l962&FF=Xtrolley+and+
frankford&searchscope=10&SORT=D&1,1,,0,0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
These Two Vintages of Cars are Together at the Bells Corner Loop at Castor
and Bustleton
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/tt096.html>
This Gentleman Was in Such a Hurry to Photograph an AM Trolley in South
Philadelphia that He Crashed His Car Getting There. (Probably Not What
Happened)
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/tt252.html>
Where the AM Cars Slept at Night
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/tt249.html>
An AM Route 66 Car in Mayfair
<http://www.phillytrolley.org/tt248.html>
My wife has a photograph of the AM cars on the Grounds of Midvale Depot at
Wayne Junction Awaiting Scraping.
So there has been a period without trackless trolleys that dates from the
contruction of the new Frankford Transportation Center when, due to
construction, these cars went out of service.
But this summer, car 800 arrived in Philadelphia for testing of a new
generation of trackless trolley cars to be used on Routes 59, 66 and 75 in
North and Northeast Philadelphia.
"2007 Philadelphia SEPTA New Flyer trackless trolleybus #800 vehicle
testing 8/22/07 at Frankford & Solly Aves. under CSX bridge using electric
power during vehicle testing." This is a crucial test as there was
concern that these trolleys might be too high for this bridge. In the
background is the oldest bridge in the United States, the bridge over
Pennypack Creek and Pennypack Park.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/8729512@N03/1208432287/in/photostream/>
Here The Pennypack Creek Bridge on Frankford Avenue is Being Named a
Historical Landmark
<http://diamond.temple.edu:81/search/Xpennypack&searchscope=
10&SORT=DZ/Xpennypack&searchscope=10&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=
pennypack/1,121,121,B/l962&FF=
Xpennypack&searchscope=10&SORT=DZ&49,49,,0,0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
The Trolleys Are Changing and so is Bells Corner
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/8729512@N03/840759962/in/photostream/>
On Frankford Avenue in the Process of Going from Mayfair to Holmesburg
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/8729512@N03/840751734/>
A Closeup
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/8729512@N03/840749590/in/photostream/>
This Trolley Did Not Come to Philadelphia on Its Own Power.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/8729512@N03/687102761/in/photostream/>
A Similar Car in Seattle
<http://www.barp.ca/archives/2005/van2101-14.jpg>
So bid farewell to the AM Cars and Await the Coming of the New Flyer
Trackless Trolley During 2008
<http://mywebpages.comcast.net/trolleydriver/trackless_trolleys.htm>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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David P. Dillard
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:29:33 -0500
From: David P. Dillard <jw...@temple.edu>
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Philadelphia En Route to Returning as One of Five United States Cities with
Trackless Trolleys
TRANSPORTATION: TROLLEY TRAIN SUBWAY LIGHT RAIL BUS CITY :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: PHILADELPHIA: PENNSYLVANIA :
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PICTURES:
Philadelphia En Route to Returning as
One of Five United States Cities with Trackless Trolleys
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