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The abandoned rails of Rt 75 looking west at Adams and Arrott.
By the time this shot was taken around 1955, overhead wire had long been removed but the city was slow to repave former trolley streets. The photographer took these shots to document tardy repaving and to show trolley modelers how it's possible to create “urban ambiance” at the end of an HO or O trolley layout.
Route 75 operated “Eighty Hundred” Peter Witts on weekdays but in its final years there was a through-routed weekend PCC service with Rt 53 (Wayne Ave), the first PRT line to receive PCCs in 1938. The Route 75 weekend extension of PCC service always was signed for Rt 53. This ended after the April 17 1948 motorization of the Wyoming Ave trolley service, just two days before trackless trolleys took over a revised and extended Route 75.
By the time this shot was taken around 1955, overhead wire had long been removed but the city was slow to repave former trolley streets. The photographer took these shots to document tardy repaving and to show trolley modelers how it's possible to create “urban ambiance” at the end of an HO or O trolley layout.
Route 75 operated “Eighty Hundred” Peter Witts on weekdays but in its final years there was a through-routed weekend PCC service with Rt 53 (Wayne Ave), the first PRT line to receive PCCs in 1938. The Route 75 weekend extension of PCC service always was signed for Rt 53. This ended after the April 17 1948 motorization of the Wyoming Ave trolley service, just two days before trackless trolleys took over a revised and extended Route 75.
Courtesy the Ed Havens collection
