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- International D-40 I believe
- Job prospects
- You had me at Train
- Land of the free
- Broad-Exchange Bldg
- Parking innovation
- The old block
- "Peck turned a sweet propeller"
- National Bank Building
- Notch shot
- Straight ahead (right, left, left, right)
- Ship lifespans
- New service
- You Say Station, I Say Potato ...
- Iron Age
- Thank you, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Grand Central Terminal
- If they made a movie of it
- Obsolete by then.
- Half the tonnage at the NYPANO dock
- Ravages escaped, bank notes signed and dated
- Chatham expansion
- Steepled in History
- Made by York
- No Summer Vacation
- Wait a minute ...
- $$$
- Joad on the Road
- Street Lights Survive
- Now & then
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Short Commute: 1943
April 1943. Washington, D.C. "Little boy riding on a streetcar." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Paging Roy Chalk
Suggested art for your next "It's Fun to Trolley!" campaign. (Okay, his ownership of DC Transit was 13 years in the future, but O. Roy Chalk had a flair for humanizing his economic predations, and would have appreciated this shot).
Familiar
Based on design and construction, I'm guessing it was a PCC car... same as I'd ridden on Newark, NJ's "City Subway" line well into the 90's. Apparently, some of those went to San Francisco's Market St. Railway when the Newark line became a modern light rail system, complete with articulated cars and honor-system ticketing.
Hey you!
The lad looks like he's having a bad day.
No longer true
When most travel adventures promised that "getting there is half the fun."
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