The Little Trolley that Could
Jana Bommersbach, in the May 2008 Phoenix Magazine, visited the Phoenix Trolley Museum and here is what she wrote:
I’m sitting on a brown leather bench seat, in front of large wood-casement windows in Trolley Car 116, and it isn’t hard to imagine Old Phoenix…
Most of Phoenix doesn’t even know this town had a thriving trolley system for 61 glorious years – from 1887 to 1948. Think about that. When this town still had nothing but dirt streets and adobe buildings, it had a mass transit system for the few folks who lived here. As the city grew, so did the lines, allowing the trolley to boast: “It comes every 10 minutes and goes everywhere worth going.”