Don's Rail Photos

Here is Georgia Power Co 480 picking up passengers on the line to Stone Mountain. This cars is a typical Cincinnati Car Co. curveside built in 1926. The line was 16 miles long and ran from Atlanta via Decatur to Stone Mountain. It was built in 1913 and lasted until the end of Atlanta street car service in 1947.

Denver & Intermountain Ry operated until March 15, 1953. There were actually two different systems in one. There was a standard gauge division which had been built as a steam road from Denver to Golden in 1893. It was taken over by Denver Tramways and electrified in 1909. In 1903 the Denver & Northwestern built a narrow gauge electric line to Leyden to haul coal to the Tramways power plant in Denver. In 1904 a narrow gauge branch was built to Golden. The narrow gauge cars were numbered in a decimal system except for the narrow gauge city cars which occasionally ran to Golden. The standard gauge cars were given integers. In 1950 all passenger service was abandoned and the narrow gauge was taken up. One of the standard gauge cars was preserved and is seen here a week before final abandonment of freight operations on the last remaining line. Car 25 was built by Woeber Car Co. in 1911 and is preserved at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.

Up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, there was an excellent trolley system which ran until 1951. Since that time they have built and are operating a first rate LRT line. The last group of cars built for the Edmonton Radial Railway were the 80's, which came from Ottawa Car Co. in 1930. They were in regular use until the end in 1951 when they were retired. Some of them made it to other uses, and car 80 was rescued in 1980 from service as a restaurant. It has now been restored and is in regular operation of the heritage trolley line in Edmonton. Here is a photo of 82, which did not survive.

At Innsbruck, Austria, is a trolley museum. Here is a copy of their brochure and some pictures of their cars.

We complete this tour by returning to the U.S. and to San Jose, California. Santa Clara Valley has an excellent LRV system, and they augment it with heritage trolleys. They have 2 locations. One is in Kelly Park, where they also have their restoration shop. The other is in the downtown San Jose area, where cars are operated on the LRV. Here are pictures of the cars with whatever information we have at this time. It will be updated when we can get the rest of the historical facts.

Car 1 of the Santa Clara County Ry.

Here is car 73 at Kelly Park.

Car 124 of the San Jose RR at Kelly Park.

Car 129 was built by American Car Co. in 1913 and was Pacific Gas & Electric Co. 35 until it was converted to a shed in 1948. It was rescued and rebuilt in 1988 and is shown in downtown San Jose.

San Jose birney 143 is currently being restored. How about that anti-climber?

Car 531 came from Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways.

AMDG

5/6/2001