Old Dallas Streetcar, Circa 1960

Posted on July 20th, 2011 10:25am by Wick Allison
Filed under Transportation, Urbanism

What’s past is prologue, as the Bard instructs us. This photo comes courtesy of the Bryan Adams class of ‘66, whose pictorial collection is worth visiting.

Old Dallas streetcar

6 comments

  1. epilogue:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Tram_Barcelona.JPG

    @ 11:26 am on July 20, 2011

  2. Just like the two that MATA has in storage and will probably use when the turntable gets finished.

    @ 11:46 am on July 20, 2011

  3. Well, similar, not “just like”- MATA’s two are Canadian Toronto PCC cars- Dallas sold most of its PCC fleet to Mexico although there is one in a museum in Massachusetts (Seashore Trolley Museum). The MATA cars still need a bit of work, that’s why the current fleet will get lots of practice playing around on the turntable…

    @ 12:00 pm on July 20, 2011

  4. interesting website too bad they don’t provide the credits for where the photographs were found or who supplied them.
    as for the streetcar the last streetcars in Dallas ran c.1956

    @ 12:12 pm on July 20, 2011

  5. Nice photos. Glad to see they have a fondness for our side of the lake.

    @ 2:18 pm on July 20, 2011

  6. I’m feeling a bad case of “Good ol’ Day Syndrome” coming on.

    @ 3:55 pm on July 20, 2011

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