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Image: Trolley car passing downtown Pittsburgh Kaufmann's store, 1984

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Description: A trolley car/streetcar (tram) passing the flagship Kaufmann's store, in downtown Pittsburgh, in 1984. The trolley (car No. 1754, wearing a paint scheme unique to that one car) was northbound on Smithfield Street at Fifth Avenue. The store became a Macy's in 2006. Streetcar service on surface streets in downtown Pittsburgh ended in July 1985 (about 16 months after this photo was taken), replaced by a new light rail subway. Pantographs had replaced trolley poles on Pittsburgh's streetcars only a few months before this photo, in November 1983. Route "42/38" ceased operating in mid-April 1984, for construction, reopening later as simply "42".
Title: Trolley car passing downtown Pittsburgh Kaufmann's store, 1984
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Author: Steve Morgan
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