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After only a decade, DC "streetcars" are kaput
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2026 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yugoslavia bound?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2026 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cuberider:

Could very well be; also, don't forget the cars that were sent over to Spain.............

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2026 1:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Recall, also, that DC TRANSIT's conduit streetcar lines outlived those of TARS by roughly 14 years.........

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2026 10:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cyberider wrote:
Yugoslavia bound?


In the 1950s, many retired London double-deckers were sold for further use in Yugoslavia (as well as several other countries)

Remember, also, back in the late 1940s, the group of modern TARS cars that were sold to Vienna, where theyran for a number of years...........

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2026 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here are several photos of ex-TARS cars operating in Vienna; several of these historic cars survive today, both here and abroad (one of the cars preserved here in the States is at the National Capital Trolley Museum in Maryland)........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9086

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9082

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9089

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9090

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9092

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9096 (note old TARS dash sign displayed)

(courtesy: nycsybway.org)

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Auctioning off the now-redundant "Le Escargot Electrique" from DC..........

www.subchat.com/read.asp?Id=1647663

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
They won't sell that junk here! Why are they redundant?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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They won't sell that junk here! Why are they redundant?



Cyberider:

They are redundant since the DC Streetcar line is closing..........

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sounds like they came to their senses and realized that "streetcars" that don't look like streetcars have little attraction to potential riders. We have a similar situation in Tempe, AZ with the Tempe Streetcar. Ugly as sin like the LRV's and under-utilized. A huge waste of the taxpayer's money.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cyberider wrote:
Sounds like they came to their senses and realized that "streetcars" that don't look like streetcars have little attraction to potential riders. We have a similar situation in Tempe, AZ with the Tempe Streetcar. Ugly as sin like the LRV's and under-utilized. A huge waste of the taxpayer's money.


Cyberider:

Agreed 100%, and I could not agree more!

Historic streetcars (or, at least, REPLICA streetcars) are, IMHO, very well suited for attracting the tourists that happen to be in a certain area.

A modern LRV is a TOTAL turn-off for me; NO LOVE LOST whatsoever.

Again, these slithering monstricities are NOT "streetcars"!!Razz

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