Men from the Kingston Consolidated Railroad.
(Photo credit: TMNY collection, catalog #4021)
The volunteers are still in the process of cataloging the museum's collection of photographs and other artifacts. However, what has been cataloged so far is summarized here:
If you know anything about these pictures or their location, please let me know so I can update the museum records. Thanks!
The only clue here is Chicago Police on the barrier, but where and when exactly? One person suggests this is the Dearborn Station, at Dearborn and Polk Streets, Downtown Chicago, which had a fire in 1922. Do you agree?
Note the nicely bricked street and the palm trees. I can discern no markings on the trolley. One person has suggested Tampa. Do you agree? 2/23/03 Earl W. Clark Jr. suggests the car is in St. Petersburg FL.
This might be a former Philadelphia Suburban horsecar now in Grand Rapids Mich. Can anyone confirm this?
These were mysteries, but thanks to our diligent readers, they have been identified:
From Frank Hicks: The photo was taken on the Philadelphia and Western, possibly 69th Street Terminal. Car #446 was built as P&W #46 by St. Louis Car Company in 1907, and in 1929 it was rebuilt with a baggage door for work service and renumbered #446. It was in use until 1955 and in 1976 was acquired by the Buckingham Valley Trolley Association, which repainted it in its original livery, removed the baggage door and renumbered it #46. It is now preserved at the Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton. The car behind #446 in the photo is one of the 160-series "Strafford" cars that the P&W had.
A Standard Steel built car running on the Moodna Viaduct, Erie Railroad, about 1930.
Atlantic City, War Board car. Bader Ave., Inlet section of city.
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