The Phoenix Trolley Museum http://phoenixtrolley.com Arizona Street Railway Museum, a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization, d.b.a. Phoenix Trolley Museum Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:52:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en The Little Trolley that Could http://phoenixtrolley.com/2008/07/30/the-little-trolley-that-could/ http://phoenixtrolley.com/2008/07/30/the-little-trolley-that-could/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:27:20 +0000 wlindley http://phoenixtrolley.com/?p=14 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.”

Read the rest of the story in the Phoenix Magazine…

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