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Two Third Avenue Railroad System streetcars from Manhattan have not
only survived the years but can be ridden today at trolley museums. I
think these two ran on Broadway, and I can find photographs of
this series of cars on other conduit lines. Broadway cars did include
roughly similar cars, some with center doors, built in the previous
decade.
Cars 629 and 631, shown here, were among 58 cars
built in 1939 in the Third Avenue system's own shops at 65th Street
and Third Avenue. They ran on Manhattan conduit routes until those
closed, ran another year or so in the Bronx with trolley poles, and
then, still only ten years old, they were sold to the system in
Vienna, Austria, where they ran for almost two decades more. 629 was
donated to the Shore Line Trolley Museum in 1967 and has run there
ever since. 631 reached the Seashore Trolley Museum in 1981. Both
have been restored to their Third Avenue system appearance.
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