Seniors: Do you remember riding on a trolley? When I was a little girl?

Question

I remember the part that touched the electrical wires overhead and the tracks in the streets. I was quite young but I do remember those things before they took up the tracks and did away with them. We have a trolley museum where you can visit and still ride them again within the compound. Such fun.

Iritadragon - I was in Toronto (lovely city) and remember seeing the trolley there, took pictures of it!

Robert P - you've been deprived!!!!

Answer 1

Yes, I was born and raised in San Francisco, so I used to ride the tolley, or as we called them the street cars all around town when we were young. Those were the ones with the overhead electrical lines. Of course we used to ride the buses to, and they also had overhead lines. Some didn't.
But I can better that, we had the"Cable Cars" Used to love to ride them and hang on the outside steps, especially as they rounded the corners. You could hop on and off when you liked.
We used to help the cable conductor push the car around on the turntable at 5th & Market. Yu can't do that anymore either.
Hands off.
Now you have to buy a ticket, stand in line for a hour and hope you can get a outside step. Kind of takes the fun out of it. Those were the days. Now they have Bart and they still have the street cars, but not the same as the old ones. and regular and stretch buses still run in the city. And of course the cable car is still there, as I mentioned above.

Answer 2

Come on up and visit Toronto. They still have hundreds of trolleys and hundreds of miles of track. And you can transfer from one trolley to another or from the trolley to a bus to a subway and back again all day long if you want. A great way to tour the city and for only 2 bucks.

Answer 3

Yes,all the time, in and around Los Angeles. It was the Red Car Line, and we used to take the trolley /street car all the way from downtown LA to Long Beach. I can still smell the electrical odor they emitted, hear the clang of the bell, and feel the rough material on those hard, grey seats. What a fun way to travel! In LA, at least as of 10 years ago, there are still tracks down in some places.

Answer 4

In New Orleans they still run a trolley. It could get pretty crowded with standing room only at times.

The worse time was when you were sitting along the front sides and a person would back right up to your face. I am not kidding.
We moved from the area about a year before Katrina.

Answer 5

Trolley automobiles nonetheless run in gross revenues provider on the Mattapan - Ashmont line in Boston. particularly some the automobiles, probable all of them, are 1946 %automobiles initially outfitted to be utilized in the two Dallas or fort properly worth, Texas (not sure which city) and purchased to the MBTA interior the Nineteen Fifties. There are additionally 3 trolley motor vehicle museums i'm responsive to in New England which grant rides to the common public in heat climate.

Answer 6

Sure do. My grand father used to take us on a trolley ride from Eight Mile Road at the Michigan Fairgrounds all the way into Detroit . Ran in the middle of Woodward Ave., ended at Eight Mile.

Answer 7

I've only seen the ones on Mr Rogers Neighborhood. But where I live they're thinking about putting in a trolley system :]

Answer 8

We have streetcars still alive and well in Toronto...a bigger version of the old trolleys...still run by overhead wires and running along tracks imbedded in the streets.

Answer 9

My older sisters have talked about it, but the trolley stopped coming to our neighborhood before I was old enough to remember. I am 61 now.

Answer 10

I live in San Francisco and I will be riding the trolley this afternoon. They're a tad bumpy, but I always enjoy the ride. :)