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Both regular operation and charters are part of our North American tour, which spans the late 1930s to 1970 along with a few postscript items bridging the new century. This was truly a different time in America, a time when you grabbed your lunch pail and caught the street car a block or two from your home and rode to work with ease and style. Some of America’s largest cities continue to operate trolley lines, trams or light rail. A few are even using PCC cars! You can still see these proud old cars running in Boston (Mattapan Line), Kenosha, Philadelphia, San Diego and San Francisco (the F Line, or Market Line). If you live in, or go to, one of those cities, you can ride the past – today!
We’ll visit 9 Cuban sugar mill railroads when American steam locomotives were hauling the cane plus the Hershey Cuban Railway, an interurban line built by the Hershey Chocolate company.
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Join us for a second tour of the electric railways in and around Chicago. View footage captured on 16mm film by the noted photographer David J. Williams III. David captured all the action between the 50s & 80s on both color and black & white film. The majority of this program covers the Chicago, South…
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DAYTON’S ELECTRIC RAILWAYSLearn why Dayton’s RTA decided not to phase out their trolley system, and what the future holds for this unique form of transportation. This video contains vintage footage of the RTA’s Christmas Trolley #559 which now resides in San Francisco, California. Also included are vintage shots of #501 and #900. Narration for this…
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Machines of Iron has compiled footage from several Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee photographers to bring you this look at the last few years of the line.
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This extensive show paints the picture that was the extensive interurban transportation system that, not that long ago, wrapped around lower Lake Michigan, from Milwaukee through Chicago and then to South Bend, Indiana. Excellent documentary!
