Amazing how comprehensive and well used of a transit system we once owned… It’s a shame we lost our streetcar system.
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A wonderful conveyance replaced (partially due to the growing power of the Fords etc..) by the gas guzzlers. One decrepit streetcar remains in the original SW and A service garage on University. What will become of it?