From a Toronto history site. Hard to read sign seems to indicate bicycles for passengers ..?.. free.
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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Mon Apr 22, 2019 6:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
I have recently seen some photos and news items from the 1890s showing street railways carrying bicycles. If you have any information on this, would you please share? |
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| Author: | buzz_morris [ Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:46 am ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century | ||
From a Toronto history site. Hard to read sign seems to indicate bicycles for passengers ..?.. free.
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| Author: | Ken Middlebrook [ Mon Apr 22, 2019 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
With the invention of the safety bicycle, rubber tires and bloomers for women, bicycle riding became such the rage for Sunday outings in the 1890s. it would make sense streetcar companies would try and entice this market, which likely was impacting their revenues. |
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| Author: | Dennis Storzek [ Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
Not so much impacting their revenues, since the bicycle riding craze was for pleasure riding, not commuting, but rather an additional revenue source for the weekend. I recall an article about the Wisconsin Central (admittedly not a trolley line) offering free transit for bikes in the baggage car of their locals to encourage people to ride farther out into the country and then take the train back. Trolley lines could have done the same thing, if they could figure out where to stow the bikes. |
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| Author: | brian budeit [ Tue Apr 23, 2019 10:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
Around the turn of the last century, in remote areas of central Pennsylvania, residents of the isolated lumber camps fitted bikes with a flanged outrigger wheel and would ride on the railroad tracks, up on the rail. It was a popular Sunday afternoon pastime, especially if no trains were running. brian b |
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| Author: | Randolph R. Ruiz [ Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
Attachment: IMG_0875sm.jpg [ 218.26 KiB | Viewed 8325 times ] I saw this hanging on the wall of the Pasadena CA historical society. No additional info was available. |
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| Author: | crij [ Wed Apr 24, 2019 4:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
Randolph R. Ruiz wrote: I saw this hanging on the wall of the Pasadena CA historical society. No additional info was available. I wonder, what the motive power was for that trolley? |
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| Author: | Dennis Storzek [ Thu Apr 25, 2019 12:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
I'm thinking it's a horse car and the horse has been unhitched. or else a streetcar trailer waiting to be picked up. Wish I could make out the name of the line. |
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| Author: | CSontag [ Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century & beyond! |
Did any trolley companies do this during WWII? Also, I remember seeing an article on the web about 20 years ago about how the large bicycle clubs in Chicago would charter special trains to take them out into the country for group rides before and after WWII. Does anyone know of this practice and where I might find it? I want to share it with my bicycling friends. And I'm also using it to coax them away from the idea that an active rail line is a future bike trail. "Look! Bicycles can be carried by trains! This is even better!" Charles |
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| Author: | jayrod [ Fri Apr 26, 2019 8:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
Not a trolley, but Cuyahoga Valley Scenic has a popular Bike Aboard service. Kayaks, too. The Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail and the Cuyahoga River both run somewhat parallel from Akron north to Rockside. We've biked from the Mustill Store in Akron to Peninsula, had lunch and return to Akron Northside station by train. It's a great service and I'd urge any tourist line with a parallel trail to consider something similar. Disclaimer - I'm not affiliated with CVSR, I just like the program. |
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| Author: | John T [ Fri Apr 26, 2019 9:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
Here in Seattle most buses have bicycle racks on the front and the light rail cars have them inside. An example from New York in 1898: https://brooklynspoke.com/2015/06/03/cl ... trolley-2/ |
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| Author: | JimBoylan [ Fri Apr 26, 2019 10:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bicycle carriage on streetcars, 19th century |
Lehigh Gorge Scenic Rwy. will also handle bikes uphill in the baggage car between Jim Thorpe and White Haven or other nearby places along the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania. The bicycle craze was so popular in Manhattan, N.Y. in the 1890s that the steam powered Elevated trains had special Bicycle Cars. |
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