Seattle Waterfron streetcar (was: 40-Mt..Washington Revival Spearheaded...)

[Donald Galt]

On 15 Mar 00, at 12:32, Carl Zager wrote:

> are the Seattle restorations actually Seattle cars?

The last streetcars in Seattle ran in April of 1941 and were more or less on 
their last legs at the time. As far as I know, nothing remains save a couple 
of very early open cable cars in museums - one of them at the Smithsonian -
 and a little non-operational electric owned by the local preservation group.

The waterfront trams are Melbourne class W's, such as may now be found 
scattered around the world. Seattle's are basically unrestored, though 
altered for high platform loading and for accommodation of wheelchairs. The 
interiors are essentially unchanged, even so far as to still have advertising 
from Melbourne in the '60s.

Don G