Piedmont and Western Railroad Club
Presents
Traction in
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte Street Railway Dilworth Horse Car on East Boulevard, circa. 1890
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Photo courtesy of the Charlotte Observer, http://www.charlotteobserver.com
Charlotte Street Railway Horse Cars at Independence Square (Trade and Tryon), circa. 1890
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Photo courtesy of the Charlotte Observer, http://www.charlotteobserver.com
Piedmont & Northern Railway combine car #2100
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Photo by George Votava, Sept. 1935
Piedmont & Northern Railway car #5101 with a Pantograph Instead of a Trolley Pole. This car was retired in the mid-1950s
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Photo courtesy of the Charlotte Observer, http://www.charlotteobserver.com
Southern Public Utilities Co. (Duke Power) Trolleys - Photos courtesy of the Charlotte Observer, http://www.charlotteobserver.com
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Motormen at the South Boulevard car barn, circa. 1912
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Trolley on West Trade Street in 1912 passing the Manufacturers Club
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Trolleys and automobiles on West Trade near the square in the early 1920s
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Trolley #116 on Tryon near the Square, circa. 1930
Charlotte Trolley #92, a Gomaco-built car as seen from a "Lynx" light rail car, October 2008
Charlotte Area Transit System "Lynx" Light Rail cars at the East-West Boulevard Station, February 2008.
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Car 108 Northbound
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Car 109 at the Station
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Charlotte Area Transit System "Lynx" Light Rail cars and interior signage, March 2008.
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Car 103 at a station
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Car 107 at a station
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Car 113
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Car 112
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Interior sign showing stations and parking areas
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Interior sign with fare payment regulations
Piedmont & Northern Railway Car 2051 at the Mint Street Terminal in Charlotte in 1945.
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Historic photo from the S. David Carriker collection
Southern Public Utilities Co. Car 85 at Charlotte Trolley, Inc. The motorman is PWRR webmaster Ken Humphreys
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Motorman Ken - 2001 photo
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2001 photo
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Feb. 1998 photo
Trolleys on Tryon Street
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Postcard showing a trolley on Tryon Street, circa. 1919
(Card publisher unidentified).
Alan Coleman collection.
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Postcard showing a trolleys at the Square, circa. 1912
(The Leighton & Valentine Co., New York).
Alan Coleman collection.
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Postcard showing trolleys near the Square on Tryon Street, circa. 1910s
(S. H. Kress & Co.).
Alan Coleman collection.
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Enlarged segment of above postcard to show detail of the trolleys
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Postcard showing a trolley on Tryon Street at night, circa. 1919
(Asheville Post Card & Pennant Co.).
Alan Coleman collection.
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Postcard showing a Piedmont & Northern traction passenger and freight equipment
and the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte , circa. 1940s (Card publisher unidentified).
Alan Coleman collection.
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