Open air cars

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Friday (20-Jul-2007) was a beautiful day in San Francisco and as a result Muni was running their open air trolley on the F-Line. Any information about the car? Any other cities run open air cars?

thanks

dd

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You probably mean this:-

http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/antique/228/index.html

An ex UK car, built for Blackpool (a coastal resort in the North West of England - think Atlantic City but less tasteful!)

There are three of these cars in the US. 226 is also in the bay area, at Rio Vista Museum.

606 is at Trolleyville, Olmstead Falls, Cleveland OH.

The remaining five are still in Blackpool in semi - regular use. Sadly summer has been cancelled this year in the UK so I doubt if any have appeared so far.

Here’s a site for Blackpool:-

http://www.allanburke.freeserve.co.uk/trams/default.htm

In the UK we call Streetcars trams.

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Lovely!

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thanks - that’s the tram I saw - now that you mention it it doeslook nautical.

dd