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Apr 1, 2006 1:45 pm
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: WOODWARD AVE. PCC CAR Fifty years ago this past week, Woodward Avenue became the last DSR route to still provide streetcar service to...
Reminder from the Calendar of DSR-2-DOT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS TODAY!!! Sunday April 2, 2006 2:00 am - 2:00 am...
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Apr 2, 2006 6:50 am
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Transportation Riders United is acknowledging the April 8, 2006 50th anniversary of the last streetcar to run in the City of Detroit with an exhibit titled "A...
Just another reminder to all here: if you have a fast connection (DSL or cable or T1), jump on over to http://www.archive.org/details/highland_park_ford_plant ...
You're right "jan5y3gt"....pretty good memory you've got. I didn't know that the DSR's #1200 series old-looks had that same wording. Nice bit of trivia info. ...
... I recall the Schaefer line crossing Plymouth Rd. which would be south of Grand River. I don't know how far south it went but you did have to change busses...
BLAST FROM THE PAST: TRY OUR NEW BUSES It was fifty years ago when the Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR) found itself in the unfortunate position of...
Your recollections are correct Fred S, and Plymouth Road is indeed south of Grand River. But after doing a little digging I discovered that both of you fellas...
I ran across an interesting article on the history of the streetcar era in Detroit. It's titled "BACK TRACK" and the article is found in the March 29 - April...
50TH ANNIVERSARY -- END OF DSR STREETCAR EVENTS Detroiters board PCC's at Woodward Carhouse for a last goodbye ride on Sunday, April 8, 1956 REMINDER AND...
THIS WEEK WE'LL LOOK AT THE GREENFIELD LINE BACK IN THE DAY GREENFIELD ONLY WENT FROM WARREN AND GREENFIELD TO NORTHLAND MALL. SERVICE WAS EVERY 10 MIN MONDAY...
BLAST FROM THE PAST: WOODWARD PCC CAR This blast from the past photo (see attachment) shows PCC car #109 heading north along Woodward Avenue, crossing...
ooops!!! This is a correction to that last message. There were 106 additional PCC's purchased by the DSR in 1949, not the 86 mentioned in my last message....
Good Afternoon, Everyone: The 3 Detroit PCC's that didn't go to Mexico City were all-electric 150 which was scrapped after a collision in 1955 and cars 101 and...
Reminder from the Calendar of DSR-2-DOT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal DETROIT STREETCAR SERVICE ENDED ON THIS DATE IN 1956 Saturday April 8, 2006...
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Apr 8, 2006 4:05 am
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Reminder from the Calendar of DSR-2-DOT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal STREETCAR SERVICE ENDED ON WOODWARD AVENUE FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY Saturday...
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Apr 8, 2006 9:40 am
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Greetings all, I was at a slide show last night in Chicago where someone was showing photos of buses he took in the 1970s and 80s. He had some Detroit photos,...
ON THIS DAY IN DETROIT---FIFTY YEARS AGO!! Fifty years ago, on Sunday, April 8, 1956, the last regularly scheduled streetcar operated its final run in Detroit....
Hello Mr.Madison-As you have acknowledged the "L" meant a coach was lift equipped.However the lifts at most times were not functioning.The letter "G"...
From time to time, we here at "DSR-2-DDOT" like to post little known facts, figures and trivia messages, we call "Factoids," to help inform our membership of...
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Apr 9, 2006 3:30 pm
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... And in the late 50s, early 60s, the busses were White (manufacturer, not color) coaches. Fred S...
DID YOU KNOW THAT ON SUNDAY MORNING WHEN THE LAST DEXTER NIGHT CAR LEAVES PROVIDENCE AT 3:26A(SATURDAY NIGHT CAR) THE NEXT ONE IS AT 5:07AM 1 DEXTER THAT PULLS...
hey dude, it looks like ur right.and according to my girl's old dexter bus schedule dated april 23, 2005 it looks like its been going on that way for at least...
On Wednesday Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatick presented his FY 2006-07 budget proposal to the Detroit City Council. His proposal this time included the layoff...
Here's the exact text Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick used during his 2007 Budget Address regarding transportation: Transportation As many of you know, our DDOT...
what if THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION or the detroit-metro area citizens say no to funding half of the $1,000,000,000.00+ proposed airport-downtown rapid...
... then things would just continue downward as they have around here for at least the past 30 or 40 plus years that i know of. based on this region's past...
THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION has been pushing an improved version of bus transit called "bus rapid transit".wikipedia,the free online encyclopedia has...
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