re: #74 nines09

Cool. We called them trackless trolleys when I was a kid in Philly. That trolley is a RT 50 which ran right outside my house on 5th street in North Philly.

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The tracked electric is the “modern” streetcar of the type used by Pittsburgh Railways until they went all-bus. IIRC they were made by the St. Louis Car Co. A 15-cent fare with free transfers could get you across the city in any direction. And it was a “steetcar”. “Trolleys” were effete New England affectations.