Detroit Citizen's Railway: Memories and Ideas

[One Shot]

I had no idea that those ran until 2003! I thought thouse stopped in the 90's.
Were thise different than the street cars?

[professorscott]

They were, precisely, antique streetcars. I don't know the origins of the particular cars used in that service though.

Oops, foolish me. If I looked at the first post on this thread then I would know the origins

[Rocko]

I wonder why the city elected to undertake a complete restoration of three of the old trolleys when ridership had dropped precipitously and based on what I've read here and elsewhere, operation was irregular, especially during the winter months. I recall when I rode the trolleys back in the mid-1990s that they had two running that day. Of course I wanted to ride the double-decker #14, the other one running was red too and may have been #247. Somewhere I have some postcards I bought someplace which showed a couple of the trolleys running down by the end-of-track at the Mariner's Church. I wonder where those are.......