Twin City Rapid Transit #1300 at Lake Harriet

[tangobuddie]

I like all your videos but I wish they had sound. :[

[cleostreet]

Thank you. I do realize that silent videos really lack a lot, and sound vids are better, but right now my only vid cam only does silent ones at a maximum 30 seconds. My next camera will have sound, and the vids will be longer.

[tangobuddie]

thats good :)

[cleostreet]

May take a little while, but your point is hereby acknowledged. :)

[Richthofen80]

Cool video. Twin Cities #1267 is still in operation at the Maine Seashore Trolley Museum, near Kennebunkport. For $50 they will teach you to operate it. See my videos of the train in action, with sound and commentary.

[cleostreet]

The 1267 is also the only gate car that survived intact after 1954. It was so called because the rear platform had wire gates, instead of an enclosed back end with bifold doors. Otherwise the body is essentially the same as that of 1300, which (like many other old TCRT cars) may have been a gate car at one time.

The MN Streetcar Museum has another gate car, a major rebuild; did not survive intact. I need to check facts on this one.

[Richthofen80]

I'll have to check out the MN Streetcar museum when I get a chance. I was in Minnetonka in April but didn't have a chance to visit that, or ride the Hiawatha line. Living in Boston, I guess sometimes I take for granted how intimate a streetcar connected city can be.

[cleostreet]

The MTA of the early '60s was the reason I like streetcars. This was just before the MBTA named the subway/surface car lines "the green line". It was all PCCs. It's odd that TCRT 1267 ended up at Seashore with all those Boston Elevated and MTA cars. You'd like the Hiawatha line.