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 Post subject: Trolley Wing Company moved for construction
PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:42 am 

Is the trolley mentioned in this article a "lost" car? I can't find a listing in the Frank Hicks' roster nor any details in a Google search.

Sloan

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7000 ... osing.html


  
 
 Post subject: Re: Trolley Wing Company moved for construction
PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:01 am 

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I found this photo on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4950318032 ... 702264915/

And this on yahoo travel:

http://restaurants.uptake.com/utah/salt ... 51202.html

The official Trolley Square website has some great historic photos that are worth checking out:

http://www.trolleysquare.com/history-gallery.php

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 Post subject: Re: Trolley Wing Company moved for construction
PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:08 am 

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They also have a Faebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salt-Lake ... 0456686675

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:05 pm 

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I lived in Salt Lake City for my last US Army assignment on the former Fort Douglas--1997 & 1998. Needless to say I visited the Trolley Square mall many times. I can't remember now where I heard this, but IIRC the car out in front of the former carbarn/shop complex was a reproduction and not original. There is also a streetcar replica inside the mall in the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant.

Maybe a local SLC historian can confirm all this if there is one who monitors this board.

My going away/retirement lunch was at a restaurant located on Emigration Canyon road about a mile or two east of the Pioneer state park. The front of the restaurant was built around a former Salt Lake and Utah Rwy interurban car. I didn't know it was there until my office colleagues brought me there. I was so surprised that I didn't write down the car number or take a photo or two.

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