Since there's not much else for me to railfan during the dark days of December I have made it a habit to go on down and ride the trolleys, even if I had been there only a few weeks earlier for the 50th Anniversary of the end of Baltimore's streetcar service. You can see all the Holiday streetcar photos in addition to some shots of N&W signals here.
As always car #264 was working for the non-Santa crowds. Not the asymmetric trucks which only contained one motor each.
PCC #7407 was sitting out, but went unused as Philly car #2168 was flying the PCC flag that day.
Here we see a PA Streetcar gauge truck awaiting the 1" shims that will expand it to the 5'4.5" Baltimore Streetcar Gauge.
The repainted Philly work car #2187.
1930's car #6119 sitting on the loop in direct sunshine.
On my trip on #264 I grabbed some video of the operator's movements on the inbound trip.
PCC #2168 was being used for the Santa trips and was signed specially for them.
Heading out on the Santa run we waited for #6119 to clear the section of single track.
Oldest operating electric streetcar in the world #417 was in the mix, but for testing purposes only.
#264 soon departed again on another non-Santa run.
As the day wore on it was time to put everything away. Here is #264 again having its poles changed before reversing into the barn.
Cars #417 and #6119 didn't bother with a pole change and just backed in to the barn pushing their poles ahead of them.
That's all for now. Tune in next week for trip back to New York City to rise the Holiday Nostalgia Train.
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