Cars

Shore Line Trolley Museum, East Haven CT

Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport ME

Two Third Avenue Railroad System streetcars from Manhattan have not only survived the years but can be ridden today at trolley museums. I think these two ran on Broadway, and I can find photographs of this series of cars on other conduit lines. Broadway cars did include roughly similar cars, some with center doors, built in the previous decade.

Cars 629 and 631, shown here, were among 58 cars built in 1939 in the Third Avenue system's own shops at 65th Street and Third Avenue. They ran on Manhattan conduit routes until those closed, ran another year or so in the Bronx with trolley poles, and then, still only ten years old, they were sold to the system in Vienna, Austria, where they ran for almost two decades more. 629 was donated to the Shore Line Trolley Museum in 1967 and has run there ever since. 631 reached the Seashore Trolley Museum in 1981. Both have been restored to their Third Avenue system appearance.