All Aboard
by Kay Novy
Title
All Aboard
Artist
Kay Novy
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
At the turn of the 21st century, Kenosha constructed a modern electric streetcar system utilizing historic PCC streetcars in coordination with the HarborPark development on the shores of Lake Michigan. The line has become a model project studied by urban planners worldwide,and is used by thirty percent of visitors to Kenosha.
Kenosha's five historic 'Red Rocket' PCC A15-class streetcars were built in Montreal for the Toronto Transit Commission in 1951 by Canada Car and Foundry under license from the St. Louis Car Company, and were remanufactured and rebodied from the windows down in 1991. Each Kenosha car is painted in a unique livery representing an historic North American transit system that also operated PCC streetcars. The first of Kenosha's streetcars was 4610 'Toronto' (originally 4541), delivered on May 4, 2000. The four other cities and systems thereby represented include Chicago Surface Lines 4606 'Green Hornet', Pittsburgh Railways Company 4609 'Pittsburgh', Johnstown Traction Company 4615 'Johnstown', and Cincinnati Street Railways 4616 'Cincinnati'.
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November 8th, 2012
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Comments (21)
Carol Wisniewski
An interesting photo and great writeup to those of us who have not had the opportunity to be familiar with the Streetcar, thank you for sharing, voted
Debbie Portwood
Great shot Kay! Love the orange color of the old streetcar and the deep purple of the flowers below! They look great together. v.f
Randy Rosenberger
Unique capture, Kay, as not many of these are seen in operation any more today. What a pleasant surprise and well captured and presented example. fave and vote
Kay Novy replied:
Thanks much Randy. The city of Kenosha thanks you also, for so many of them think this is a joke around here. Our tourist use it alot. Locals........not so much!