Welcome to the first diary for a new dKos group, The Streetcar Barn. We have a lot of good discussion here about trains and high-speed rail, but i feelt we could use a place to talk about urban public transit. Since streetcars are a passion of mine, I'll be focusing a lot on their history as well as their future.
In this photo, a "bobtail" car from the Johnson Car Works of St. Louis, MO, on the Prytania line. No specific date for this photo, but the bobtails ran uptown for the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company in the 1870s through the late 1890s, when the streetcar lines were electrified.
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