Jack May jackmay135@gmail.com
To:Jack May
Jan 5 at 5:12 PM
Clare and I spent Saturday, May 4 in St. Louis as part of a motoring tri
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Continued from part 1, with views of cars 001 and 002 on the eastern and southern end of the line.
Above and below: Two views east of Delmar Loop along the St. Louis portion of the line. There is little retail activity here in what could be described as a struggling neighborhood. Clare and I had and excellent lunch at Krab Kingz, a seafood restaurant where we were conspicuous among the clientele, but were greeted and treated by a staff who was very anxious to please. Any hope that the Loop Trolley would bring in more people to support activities here were dashed when the line closed on December 29, 2019. The upper view is just east of the former Wabash Railroad station, while the lower photo shows the two cars passing on a single track portion of the line just short of De Baliviere Avenue.
The pleasantly landscaped single-track paved right-of-way that runs alongside De Baliviere Avenue. Car 002 has just left the Crossroads [Preparatory School] stop and
A quick detour.
David Peter Alan, a New Jersey-based passenger rail advocate, wrote an article about the history of the Loop Trolley for Railway Age. It has a number of good photos, the best of which I’ve pasted below along with the link. The photos did not come with any credits, so I suspect they were official pictures from the trolley company. Nor did they have captions, but were placed accordingly within the text of the article, so for further information and the remainder of the illustrations, I suggest you click on the link. (I’ve added some comments below; refer to the articles photos.)
Jack
https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/light-rail/a-streetcar-thought-undesirable/
The map isn’t quite right, showing a counter-clockwise loop at the History Museum; the line actually had a stub end terminal on its eastern leg. It also shows Trinity Avenue as the western terminal, when it actually was slightly shorter, ending just west of the Kingsland intersection.
Didn’t quite end up with single-ended ex-Milan Peter Witts, nor did it ever lo
The final part of this essay covers some of the sightseeing we accomplished while in the St. Louis area. Just after noon on Saturday we parked at the History Museum and Clare accompanied me for a round trip on the Loop Trolley, which included a few photos and a stop for a great lunch at Krab Kingz along the eastern portion of Delmar Boulevard. When we returned I drove her further into the park to the St. Louis Art Museum, parked again back at the History Museum and then accomplished much of the photography that was shown in parts 1 and 2.
However, before the 12 noon start of Loop Trolley service, we visited the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Staying in a Drury Inn near the airport, we drove downtown early Saturday morning on a mostly empty interstate, hoping to find a free parking spot on the street, but did not, and ended up putting the car in a virtually empty parking deck nearby. Here are a few pictures I took both before we rode to the pi