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NOPSI 930 |
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New Orleans Public Service JACKSON AVENUE car 930 was inbound on Dryades Street. It had just passed St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, a local landmark, and was turning onto Howard Avenue. This car line was replaced with gasoline-powered buses on 19 May 1947, about two weeks after this photo was taken, and these were replaced with electric buses about five months later, on 2 October 1947. Car 930 had been built by Perley Thomas in 1924 and has never been retired. |
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5/4/1947 Upload Date: 7/5/2020 6:41:10 PM |
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New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
ELLIOTT M. KAHN photo, J.G. LACHAUSSEE collection |
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Transit |
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NOPSI 930(Trolley) |
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NOPSI CANAL STATION |
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This was the rear of New Orleans Public Service’s CANAL STATION as seen from Bienville Avenue at the corner of North White Street. The trolleybuses on the left and in the middle were built by Marmon-Herrington on 1949 for service on the CITY PARK and ST. CLAUDE routes, and were always based here; while the ones on the right had been built by the St. Louis Car Co. in 1947 for operation on the FRERET and JACKSON lines, and were initially based at ARABELLA STATION before being reassigned here. In the center background, on the other side of Iberville Street, was CANAL line streetcar 930. Streetcars were parked on the other side of Iberville, behind these buses. Unlike all of these buses, car 930 was still in service in 2020, on the ST. CHARLES line. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1954 Upload Date: 4/1/2020 6:25:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
William T. Harry photo, J.G. Lachaussee collection |
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Transit |
| Locomotives: |
NOPSI 930(Trolley) |
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NOPSI Canal Station |
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This land is still used to store streetcars, but it doesn’t look like this anymore! The New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (NOPSI) CANAL STATION and BUS GARAGE was in the 2900-block of Canal Street. (STATION was the NOPSI name for its vehicle service and storage facilities.) This property is now used by the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority to service and store modern street cars, but this is what it looked like on 31 March 1955. Perley Thomas car 930 is parked outside with several of its siblings, while an unidentified new diesel-powered GM Model TDH-5105 and prewar gasoline-powered White Model 788 1459 are in the carbarn. |
| Photo Date: |
3/31/1955 Upload Date: 12/15/2019 4:00:35 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
WILLIAM T. HARRY photo, J.G. LACHAUSSEE collection |
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Transit |
| Locomotives: |
NOPSI 930(Trolley) |
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