Sell 136 Baltimore trolleys 1950

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The NRHS Film Archive

7 жыл бұрын

Part of a pair of films shot in 1950

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@speedracer1945 3 жыл бұрын

My Dad drove one back then . I remember streets that still had them before they tore um up . Buses took over but these were cleaner for the air than a bus .

@manie3232 Жыл бұрын

My dad drove one too. I believe it was the number 8.

@wesleywilliams1380 2 жыл бұрын

I like watching these videos and compare them to now. I can see that our light rail uses some of the old tracks and routes. And if I'm not mistaken some of those tracks are still there or just buried under the asphalt.

@domino_media 4 жыл бұрын

I'm not from America, but what a deterioration if I now look at google maps in the same place at 0:44 and compare with streetview maps at: 39.288307, -76.643419 I can cry.

@trainrover 2 жыл бұрын

Diversity were the origins of where corporateers have l o n g taken to gobbling up...a lot of time's now passed already, right.. . . .

@jiluminou 2 ай бұрын

This video is very special. Towards the end we see the streetcar #26, the Red Rocket, make it's way through Edgemere and Fort Howard towards Bay Shore Park - a Trolley Amusement Park that ceased operations in the 40s. The former amusement park is now the site of North Point State Park, many features (including the trolley station) are still there.

@monjiaitaly 4 жыл бұрын

I wasn't born yet but I heard they were very good times. People kept their doors open, teenagers weren't yet elevated to the point of ridiculousness and it was a more homogenous place, which meant safer and a sense of community.

@theOlLineRebel 3 жыл бұрын

This was my mom's beloved hometown. And her beloved streetcars. 8 and 9 were her main uses.

@barbibutton9619 3 жыл бұрын

Should have kept Trolleys. Carbon footprint seems to be smaller

@trainsupporter9088 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Looks like Baltimore would have been a nice place to explore in that era - it was before I was born though. So, I got to get a glimpse of that time through this video!

@matrox 2 жыл бұрын

Pre sh!thole era.

@drdean9913 4 жыл бұрын

Film has been stabilized. Nice job

@dasteelerfan1 4 жыл бұрын

Great post fabulous footage

@christainmarks106 2 жыл бұрын

Baltimore was definitely so beautiful back then. There’s no denying the beauty of our city. But despite that ,I still wouldn’t want to live bk In those time. I grew up hearing nightmare stories of terror from my older relatives about not being able to walk two blocks over because they were of the Wrong “persuasion” And thats just the tip of the iceberg… It’s easy to look at old film of our beautiful city and daydreaming of “ the good ole days” But just remember for some , those times were FAR from “ the good ole days”

@humboldtharry1289 2 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s a lot safer now, no need to worry! 🙄

@brushcreek42 2 жыл бұрын

They must have has a very small amount of money allotted for washing streetcars.

@yvonnebaltimore7729 4 жыл бұрын

Baltimore & Gilmore tho omg!!!

@neub4321 3 жыл бұрын

I'd be surprised if all the photos of water were in Baltimore; maybe they included some nearby parts of Maryland. Interesting movies. Too bad they abandoned a lot of the public transit options.

@amitisshahbanu5642 Жыл бұрын

My uncle was killed by one in 1906 when he was a kid.

@chuckschafer6728 4 жыл бұрын

EARLIER THAN THAT ARTICULATEDS WERE GONE IN 1948

@charleskosyjana1295 3 жыл бұрын

Funny how the newest trolley's/streetcars looked like buses on rails. And then the buses took over altogether!!!

@barbibutton9619 3 жыл бұрын

Should have kept the trolleys. Would love to find an old one, restore it for a tiny house/she shed music room

@ms.donaldson2533 2 жыл бұрын

Rockefeller wouldn't have made millions on petroleum if we didn't upgrade to gas powered buses. The history of city transportation is fabulous. They used to have a ferry that could get you to the Ocean - no traffic jams! Imagine what luxury that would be today.

@johncox2284 Жыл бұрын

Those "buses on rails" are called PCC cars. There is a fleet of them still active in San Francisco. Buses adopted that same design to a large degree. It was the art deco era.

@douglasthompson8927 2 жыл бұрын

General Motors and Firestone took down the street cars here in the 1950`s and replaced them with buses...we had dependable reliable public transportation everywhere in the us until then..in my town the buses suck..what about yours ?

@maryhodgenson4766 4 жыл бұрын

Food vito thank you.I enjoy watching it.give us more please,befor my time but like SEEING it......cross out food?????

@birthabutt9555 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Millenials...this is what a manufacturing based economy looks like.

@matrox 2 жыл бұрын

Eff Manufacturing...they want free stuff....from China...Japan....Germany...anywhere but made in USA.

@johncox2284 Жыл бұрын

Also, my Millennial friends, this is what a society looks.like where people get out and see other people, where they live in neighbourhoods and ride places and have jobs. Note the happy looks on a lot of their faces. They aren't confused.

@paulgreen6921 3 ай бұрын

Love dem PCC’s! PWG

@TheNormal256 4 жыл бұрын

This is 1950? Why does it look like 1920?

@maryhodgenson4766 4 жыл бұрын

It probably was there in the 20,S but film in the 50..

@theOlLineRebel 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe because they still used many old streetcars, not all the silly rounded PCCs.

@oliverrojas7117 3 жыл бұрын

It is far from 1920. The color, rather than black and white film footage, is a tip off that it's the 50s. I agree trolleys look like they have not had their exteriors maintained or cleaned in quite a long time.

@alphamale2754 4 жыл бұрын

Baltimore and Monroe at 20:08

@wesleywilliams1380 2 жыл бұрын

00:20

@martinkiberenge4405 3 жыл бұрын

Are those drivers still driving now plus pedestrians.

@joselizama7634 4 жыл бұрын

Si verdad

@hoteldennis 7 жыл бұрын

Looks like 1946.

@chuckschafer6728 3 жыл бұрын

OR 1947

@dudleytundish3585 4 ай бұрын

@@chuckschafer6728 Can't be any more recent than 22 June 1947, when the section of route 1 over the Guilford Avenue elevated was discontinued and route 11 was converted to bus operation.

@haydertahir8556 2 жыл бұрын

then the oil companies lobbied to destroy all the rail systems in favor of roads

@290wayne 2 жыл бұрын

About 5 years before my time.

@trainrover 2 жыл бұрын

maybe because of similar statures nevertheless smaller American cities like Pittsburgh, Baltimore and even SLC fascinate me..diverse origins back then up against today's prescribed Corporaterias.. . . .