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Post by Gokhan on May 14, 2013 13:26:09 GMT -8
I was tipped on YouTube that this Pacific Electric streetcar Harold Lloyd operated was on the rather short Franklin Avenue Line, which ran a loop between Franklin, Western, Hollywood, Vine, Yucca, and Argyle:
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Post by bobdavis on May 15, 2013 18:08:46 GMT -8
I recognize the controller as a Type K-11; none of the PE cars with this controller have survived, but LARy 665 at OERM has this variety. Note that there was no "dead-man" feature like one would find on a Birney or most cars from the 1920s. The belief was that if something happened to the motorman, the conductor could rush forward and shut off the power. Note that by the time this movie was made, the Western-Franklin line was probably operated with Birneys (PE 331 and 332 are preserved at OERM), and I think the streetcar scene in "Singin' in the Rain" has a Western-Franklin destination sign, even though the scene was probably filmed in an MGM sound stage.
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