http://youtu.be/W38jydjxZ0A
Listen to the sound these trolleys (trams) make as they start up. They sound worse in real life.
Listen to the sound these trolleys (trams) make as they start up. They sound worse in real life.
These new Breda Type 8s sound weird.
- Thread starter JCitron
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Man, can't they just scrap those annoying things and bring back the PCC cars?I really would love that. I grew up on those and even used to draw pictures of them when I was really young. My dad worked in Boston and I'd sometimes go into the office with him. He was a graphic artist so there was plenty of paper and cardboard and stuff to draw on and a big window sill to sit on and look out the window. I used to draw the trains and trolleys, showing tunnels, and bridges. I always loved that stuff and still do.
These Breda things are also uncomfortable to ride in, and they derail easily in the tunnels! Boyleston and Tremont Streets have the tightest corners in the world for trolleys to negotiate. When the Bredas first came here, they were out of spec and fell off the track in the tunnels. There are still issues when them now.
John
These Breda things are also uncomfortable to ride in, and they derail easily in the tunnels! Boyleston and Tremont Streets have the tightest corners in the world for trolleys to negotiate. When the Bredas first came here, they were out of spec and fell off the track in the tunnels. There are still issues when them now.
John
What..............The.............Hell?
I Miss The Good Ol Days Where We Had Interurban Railroads
Such As The Sacramento Northern
The P&SR
Just To Name A Few
God, Imagine It, What If Them Cars Still Rolled The Rails, It Would Be Something Special
It Is Definitively Something To Think About
-Taylor
I Miss The Good Ol Days Where We Had Interurban Railroads
Such As The Sacramento Northern
The P&SR
Just To Name A Few
God, Imagine It, What If Them Cars Still Rolled The Rails, It Would Be Something Special
It Is Definitively Something To Think About
-Taylor
NewSouth41
Wolf In Sheeps Clothing
the breda type 8 light rail vehicles sound al lot like the manchester metrolink T68 and T68a lght rail vehicles from the same manufacturer breda especially at speed and accelerating from a stop
I agree with you on this, Tayor. There was nothing like these companies. Sadly I was born just as they were dying. We had the Eastern Mass. Street Railway which ran all over from Boston all the way to the Berkshires and up to southern New Hampshire. This company and its subsideries built Forrest Park, Whalem Park, Canodbie Lake Park, the Salem Willows, and Pleasure Island as desinations for the public. Today Canobie Lake Amusement Park, I think is the only one left. The others have become housing developments.
If I drive along Route 110 from Haverhill towards Amesbury, I can see remnants of the old Haverhill and Amesbury, and the Amesbury Electric Street Railway. Just up the street from me, is a raised grade along Route 110. When you get to Merrimac Center, there is the old trolley barn on Main Street. This is now the firestation, but when I was a kid it was closed up, but there were still trolley poles and wires around it. A bit farther up the road towards Amesbury is the old substation for Merrimac Electric. Indian Head Park on Lake Attitash was another trolley park. The tracks then continued up Telegraph Hill and into Amesbury. You can still see the ROW today as it crossed Route 150. Applecrest Farms farmstand sits just where the crossing used to be. This was long gone before I was born, but the ROW is still obvious.
Amesbury itself was a coach building center. They used to build trolley cars there as well as horse buggies. They had the Amesbury Electric which ran steeple cab motors around the mills and for LCL freights.
I agree it would have been fun to have lived back then and enjoyed the sights, sounds and awesomeness of the times.
In away I'm lucky because the famous Seashore Trolley Museum is located about 90 minutes north of me. Up there they have some restored interurbans, subway cars, trolley buses, and even a steeple cab from the Sanford Electric in operation. They operate over a former section of the once huge interurban line that ran from Portsmouth to Portland through Saco Maine. http://www.trolleymuseum.org/
John
If I drive along Route 110 from Haverhill towards Amesbury, I can see remnants of the old Haverhill and Amesbury, and the Amesbury Electric Street Railway. Just up the street from me, is a raised grade along Route 110. When you get to Merrimac Center, there is the old trolley barn on Main Street. This is now the firestation, but when I was a kid it was closed up, but there were still trolley poles and wires around it. A bit farther up the road towards Amesbury is the old substation for Merrimac Electric. Indian Head Park on Lake Attitash was another trolley park. The tracks then continued up Telegraph Hill and into Amesbury. You can still see the ROW today as it crossed Route 150. Applecrest Farms farmstand sits just where the crossing used to be. This was long gone before I was born, but the ROW is still obvious.
Amesbury itself was a coach building center. They used to build trolley cars there as well as horse buggies. They had the Amesbury Electric which ran steeple cab motors around the mills and for LCL freights.
I agree it would have been fun to have lived back then and enjoyed the sights, sounds and awesomeness of the times.
In away I'm lucky because the famous Seashore Trolley Museum is located about 90 minutes north of me. Up there they have some restored interurbans, subway cars, trolley buses, and even a steeple cab from the Sanford Electric in operation. They operate over a former section of the once huge interurban line that ran from Portsmouth to Portland through Saco Maine. http://www.trolleymuseum.org/
John