[PRCo] Old movies containing trolleys......

[Fred Schneider]

Pure comedy but some great New York streetcar scenes....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0&feature=related

New York's first subway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjKL8_er34s&feature=fvw

23rd Street, Manhattan ... an old Edison film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6waHQwR0G4k&feature=related

Lower Broadway in Manhattan about the same time....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsrdkySRSCY&NR=1

The roar of the four ... San Francisco ... pre war

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqs6DF_wGE&feature=related

A cable car in Seattle in 1897

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25QjAtzF8U

I love this ... Portland ... modern Portland ... a city where people still go downtown to shop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIKjC9ihgcA

Here is an Edison film of a trolley and horses in a village called Los Angeles in 1898:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgDk22MV7S0&feature=related

Shirley Temple inaugurates PCC service in Los Angeles 39 years later:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cwcnTyR2E&feature=related

A portion of the Pacific Electric 1914 training film is shown.   The single track east of 
El Monte is today used by Amtrak's Sunset Limited!   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a08Ol9EQUAU&feature=related

A New Orleans travelogue from 1940 ... segregated city, 4 tracks on Canal Street, steam boats
on the river.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyf0K28r8So&feature=related

If you were enjoying it and want more detail, keep listening....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07IAAwhqYkk&feature=related

Boston trolley ride in 1903 ... a few others are visible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfH4Rx8Ao6A