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

[Jerry "Matt" Matsick]

"Thanks Fred" for sharing these unique movies of trolleys etc.   I wish somewhere or somehow to 

find a movie of the Donora Low Floor cars in operation.  I remember a scene at the northend of 

Donora (15th) Street where there was a passing siding, I see two cars and two conductors talking, 

and hearing the chuga chuga sound of the electric motor, I must have been around 8 or 9 so that would 

be around l949 or l950! 



Jerry Matsick 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:05:18 PM 
Subject: [PRCo] Old movies containing trolleys...... 

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. Â  The single track east of 
El Monte is today used by Amtrak's Sunset Limited! Â  

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 

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