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Brill Carris #283
20 march 2010 - Lisboa, Cais do Sodre: The impressive `toastrack` tram, now the last one remaining in Lisboa, on a rare trip outside its normal home in the Carris museum. These summer trams were built by Brill of Philadelphia, USA and shipped to Portugal in 1901. This tram had a very lucky escape - withdrawn from service in the early 1950s, it spent almost the next twenty years as a plaything in a city park until rescued for preservation in 1981. It is only used on sunny days (probably not because of the risk of rain damage, but because the drivers don`t like getting wet....)
Brill Carris #330
14 march 2010 - Lisboa, Santo Amaro: Brill convertible tram #330 of 1906 stands at the Carris depot before leaving on a tour of the Lisboa network. These bogie trams were once widespread in the city, having been bought direct from America in kit form and put together in these workshops. The side panels are designed to roll upwards into the roof, leaving the tram open in the summertime. Nowadays, this tram is a little fragile and can only use the flatter, straighter part of the network.
Brill (Carris) #330
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Rua Sacadura Cabral. Inside #330. The cane rattan seats are typical of American-built trams of this period, but this tram has a more unusual feature – the walls slide up into the roof to create an open-sided car for use in summer time, so the interior is distinctly tunnel-shaped. These ‘convertible’ cars were once something of a Portuguese speciality and a few still remain in Lisboa and Porto.
Brill (Carris) #330
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Rua Sacadura Cabral. One of the last remaining four-axle cars in the Carris system, this 1906 Brill is a bit like me – it doesn’t get out much. We are also both a bit old and fragile, so can’t go up steep hills, so this tram is confined to just the flat coastal line between Lisboa and Cruz Quebrada.
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Birney Safety Car #15
18 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) – depot/zajezdnia Guarda-Inglese. A Coimbra tram. The city ran metre-gauge trams until 1980, when trolleybuses (first introduced here in 1947) took over the remaining routes. By this time, all the trams were very old, but kept in good condition – what a pity that some of the lines didn’t survive just a few more years, as they would certainly now still be operating. This one is an extremely rare type – a Birney Safety Car built by Brill of Philadelphia in 1928 and one of just five to reach Europe. Many smaller cities in USA had trams exactly like these.
Brill (Carris) #330
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Rua Bartholomeu Dias, Belem. Another rare outing for one of the few remaining four-axle cars in the Carris fleet, here seen on a special charter trip. There were once quite a few of these, but now they have mostly gone to museums. The vast building behind is the Jeronimos monastery. This picture didn’t go according to plan – three of us arranged to be picked up as soon as the tram reached us, but the driver didn’t see us, so we had to quickly find a taxi and say the immortal words “Follow that tram”.
Brill (Carris) #283
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Praca do Comercio. Like me, this tram doesn’t get out much. It normally lives in the Carris museum and only comes out on very special occasions – and only when it isn’t raining (this isn’t so much for the tram’s benefit, but because the drivers don’t like getting wet!). It’s an original Brill summer car from 1902 and now the only one remaining.
Brill (Carris) #329
17 january 2009 - Lisboa, Museu do Carris. Fajne drzwi, ciekawe czy ma "ciepły guzik" ;)
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Brill (Carris) #506
17 january 2009 - Lisboa, Museu do Carris. Modernização? ;)
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Brill Parlor Car #500
august 1977 - Branford, Ct at the Shore Line Museum car barn.
Author: Michael Taylor
Place: East Haven (Connecticut)
| Owner: Shore Line Trolley Museum East Haven
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