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

[Dwight Long]

Jerry

Donora?  Next to yours, the friendliest town in the USA--and home of Stan Musial!  What they did not mention on their large billboard just a little ways toward town from Black Diamond was that Donora was also home of the killer smog.  It's a wonder you could see the action that you remember!  LOL.

The "chuga chuga" was the compressor motor.

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Monday, 19 July, 2010 15:58
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Old movies containing trolleys......



  "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 

  "