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Terminal Trolleys: 1943
April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. "Transportation for war-swollen population. The yard of Washington Terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Co. From left to right: old trolley made into a smoker for employees; a work car; and an old horse car. Baltimore Trust building on the horizon." Photo by Marjory Collins, Office of War Information. View full size.
BROMO-SELTZER
Just to the left of the pole between cars 3739 and 129 is Baltimore's famous Bromo-Seltzer tower, also shown here: https://www.shorpy.com/node/27405, but by this time the 20-ton Bromo bottle on the top of the tower had been removed. The large white circle part way down the tower is a large clock face. There were clocks on all four sides of the tower with the letters B R O M O S E L T Z E R substituted for the hour numbers on the clock faces.
BROMO-SELTZER
Just to the left of the pole between cars 3739 and 129 is Baltimore's famous Bromo-Seltzer tower, also shown here: https://www.shorpy.com/node/27405, but by this time the 20-ton Bromo bottle on the top of the tower had been removed. The large white circle part way down the tower is a large clock face. There were clocks on all four sides of the tower with the letters B R O M O S E L T Z E R substituted for the hour numbers on the clocks' faces.
Second (or third) Wind
More than a few old streetcars in the bone yard and waiting to be scrapped, were pulled out to the shops for a quick refurbishment and a new lease on life. Patching up old cars was a better alternative to building new ones with a war on.
That new looking car to the right, No. 129, is actually the oldest car in the yard. Built as a horsecar, 129 is thought to have made the last service of a horse car in Baltimore in 1898. The car was fitted with rubber tires for publicity work in the 1930s. The car is preserved today in the collection of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum; pictures are on their website.
Originally built by United Railways and designed by noted architect E. Francis Baldwin, the long shop buildings still function today for taxpayer-supported MTA, though today's light rail cars are maintained elsewhere; this is buses only.
BTW, directly above the horsecar 129 is the top of the Matheson Building, the tallest building in Baltimore's skyline for many years.
Horse Car Survives
Car 129 has an interesting history and is part of the collection of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. Baltimore's streetcars ran on the unusual track gauge of 5 feet 4½ inches.
When non-smoking laws came into effect in Vancouver, B.C., an old bus was set aside for smokers at the transit system garage.
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