When the city of Philly was having a hard time financing the building of new cars on it's relaunch of the 15 line ("Girard Avenue trolley"), some genius came up with the idea "Let's just Hot Rod the old ones!"
So they took some shells of old 1940's era PCC trolleys, did some blasting and sanding, cutting and shutting.
Painting, pimping, retro-fitting.
They ended up with the sweetest Public Transpo hack of the last decade: The rebirth of the old school Philly trolley car - complete with modern newfangled air conditioning.
The Broad Street subway and Frankford Ave "El" gets you to Girard Ave on the north side of town.
Memorial Day reading: the first issue of BATTLE CRY (Dec. 1955)
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: A link to a flip page copy of the first issue of BATTLE
CRY magazine is at the bottom of this post.] Memorial Day is a day…
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