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My first ride was in 1985 on trolley #1001 now make circular runs as the Silver Line in Downtown San Diego.

Excellent!

I think I have been on that befire

Very interesting thankyou!

Awesome origin story of the Trolley! I learned a lot. Thanks so much!!!

2:22:40: Correction: Amtrak's unnamed Trains 11 and 14 (later to be named Coast Starlight, but not yet) did not operate into San Diego. It terminated at LAUPT, but transferred a coach and sleeper on the rear of a connecting San Diegan train, providing thru coach and sleeper service until 1972. I know. I have pictures (June 23, 1971: ATSF F7A-B, ATSF baggage & two ATSF coaches + SP 4-4-2 Pullman & SP Shasta chair for Seattle).

My Grandmother Jean W travelled to San Diego from Glasgow in the early part of C20 - and pre WW1. She would have travelled from Glasgow to New York..and then to San Diego where she worked for the Peabody Trust. And then back to Glasgow. All this on her own., where she married, my Grandfather.in Glasgow. She was a teacher - music and mathematics.

I learned so much from this! Very interesting. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you! I wish I could have been there! Glad to see the extension of an article he wrote for my website back in 2019!

What a rush this is, growing up from 59-76 in San Diego and getting my interest in trains there. This is awesome. I also built 2 blogs on The SD&AE.

Princess peach Number 1 Is Best!

I took these videos on the Escondido Branch going back to 1994: ruclips.net/p/PL6Qo6zQygJ58O-SrFMX1v7ky6dMc_iCxI&si=u00FjBVnt2E7n5Ie

Great presentation and nice work. Just one comcern should a museum board member be using the term foamer to refer to every excursion train on the presentation especially when the museum relys on excursion train revenue? Imagine a train enthusiasts with some money looking to donate money to preservation at some museum and they hear that.

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I like it

Anyone know what happened to to old SP fire truck? Was at the old Jamul fire station 1980s?

Great video. Love this place.

I used to see these on the FEC tracks behind the elementary school I attended in Ft Lauderdale. I was still a kid and always wanted one!

born in 1953 and growing up in my early years across the road from southern railways main line through greensboro nc i remember seeing lots of these 🙂

He looks like baby huey in it 😊

The put put us here 😅😮

IS THAT A SWITCH, A TURNOUT, OR A WYE?

My uncle, who worked for CN back in the day, took my cousin and I to work with him and his crew on an emergency track repair with a ride down the tracks in one of those. Need more than one person to lift off the tracks when a train passes... It would put put-put along the track.Called a pumper cart if i remember correctly. They use pickup trucks today. I haven't seen one of those in years...

I was in a church meeting in Franklin Pennsylvania looking out the window and tons and tons of these came down the tracks amd i lost interest in the meeting all together ❤️ 🎉🎉🎉

I have been to San Diego but I have never tried their light rail

I am glad I was able to video my experience riding the trolley down to San Ysidro. Very smooth ride and no issues at all

Honolulu rail train was voted down in 70s

I went to Navy A school. November 1981 to march 1982 at NTC San Diego 😊 had to catch bus outside gate NTC catch Trolley downtown

Great Job San Diego ❤It I Rode The Lines 😊

Good to see 2103 retired to light duty, she’s been getting her suntan and ocean spray all her life! The dry mountain air will do her good.

my first ride on the Trolley was on December 1991 from San Ysidro to Palomar Streeth,one of my fondest memories,so,thanks for this little history of the MTS Trolley

Well made video, but it omitted the one thing I most remember from the earliest days. The first cars were ordered without air conditioning. Worse, their side windows were sealed shut except for small vent windows at the top. After public complaints about the "streetcar named perspire" those first cars were retrofitted with a/c.

This is so cool! I wnat to ride it. Great video!

I have read Gina Holle's book on the San Diego LRT.

Thanks for this comprehensive overview of the San Diego Trolley system and its history. I use the Blue Line extension to get to the VA hospital in La Jolla regularly, and it's been a great way to avoid the congestion on I-5. I know that there has been talk of expanding the system, adding a Purple Line that runs south along I-805. I have mixed feelings on that, On the one hand, it will help get more people on the trolley, but on the other hand, I sense that it would be competing with the Blue Line running virtually parallel to it just a few miles away. Instead (or in addition to), what I would really like to see is a trolley line run from the Otay Mesa border crossing up the CA 125 corridor to connect with the Orange and Green Lines in La Mesa. There has been an explosion of growth in east Chula Vista, and the only way to get to downtown is to ride the Rapid 225 bus (which gets stuck in traffic on the I-805). Don't get me wrong, I used the Rapid 225 daily to get to City College and then the #7 or Rapid 215 to my job in Balboa Park, and it was great. A trolley would be better.

even tho the San Diego Trolley came first, it would’ve been interesting if they followed suit like Edmonton and Calgary and had their LRT be high floor vehicles due to using the same Siemens U2 vehicles. would’ve been a way roomier and accessible vehicle with level boarding just like the current low floor vehicles.

Thats a wide variety.

Overhauls to 5 miles of tracks are coming

They need donations to finish the overhaul. Help them

Very well done

man i wonder if so 2353 was in operation

This is very informative and well done. San Diego history is so interesting. So wish we still had a trolly that went all over town like before. Nice voiceover by the way!!

I love the music 22 minutes in.

I know Tanya Rose through The San Diego Folk Heritage Society. Very wonderful lady. And very cool locomotive!

good video sad it is so grainy. but that’s film. but the only bad part is the music. guess 40 years back it might have been good.

if only they could get the backing of a billionaire or three. it would be a slam dunk. but the ticket price would be a bit more than $5.USD in 2024-203? -2940? but i for one would go there many times. and i bet thousands more would and thats just people in ca. i bet it would draw people from other countries.

Engine 2104, this is campo dispatch. emergency! emergency!

sounding good! renumber back to original 5873 & repaint to bloody nose.

Outstanding!!