“ GETTING ABOUT ” 1935 DETROIT, MICHIGAN STREET RAILWAYS VINTAGE TROLLEY & TRANSIT FILM MD10175
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This vintage transportation film is created by the Detroit Department of Street Railways (D.S.R) as a promotional film (00:00). Viewers travel around old Detroit in the mid-1930s as the city grew into a major hub for the transportation industry. It details how locals get around focusing on use of the D.S.R line. The film boasts of the line’s excellence in maintenance, cost and service. The D.S.R. was founded in 1922 and was the progenitor of DDOT; the Detroit Department of Transportation. D.S.R managed the Detroit United railway system. The last of the streetcars were decommissioned in 1956. Al Weeks narrates (:17). A trolley car of the DSR line is shown, probably a double ended Birney Safety Car or similar (:25). A railway employee wipes the company logo clean (:32). 1930’s automobiles and a Yellow Coach bus run by the rail line (:58) as the narrator stresses the value of public transit. During this time period; nearly a million rode the D.S.R. street cars and busses daily (1:07). Detroit’s history as a hub for transportation began in 1902. A Ford transit bus navigates past Detroit's Highland Park property (1:25), site of the first Highland Park Plant, opened in 1909. Inevitably it would be the automotive industry which would decimate the rail car industry by the close of the 1950's. Over 30 acres of yards are set aside for rail car storage (1:32). Other major rail car companies of the time are mentioned including Coolidge, Shoemaker and Jefferson Car Housing (1:42). Maintenance men perform routine maintenance (1:50). A hydraulic jack pumps the 16000 lb. car up (1:53). A fresh layer of paint is sprayed on (2:05). A rail car runs through the shower rack (2:31). Window washers snap to work (2:55). An 18 ton truck moves towards the moveable platform (3:14). A view follows from over the driver's shoulder as he moves down city roads (3:56). Mistersky power plant is pictured (4:06). Energy for the trolleys is sourced from here. A massive drag scraper scoops coal from the mound (4:22). A conveyor belt runs fuel to the bunker (4:28). The boilers are pictured (4:40). Various meters monitor the boilers performance (4:48). Four massive turbines (4:55) convert steam energy to electrical energy. One of the 18 substations is pictured (5:16). A repair truck runs out to save a broken tire (5:36). Workers build tracks for the rail cars (6:15). Detroit added 75 miles of rail line (6:20). Construction of the rail line is discussed (6:30). A mold with a sand core is fit tight over the joint (6:42). Magnesium and iron are combined in a pot (6:50). Molten iron welds the rails together (6:58). The cooled mold is broken (7:08) displaying one connected piece of steel. D.S.R. was able to construct new rails without hindering the flow of the established rail line (7:41). The rail line mainly served the working community (8:16). Riders move through a gate to pay fares (8:47). Another car of the D.S.R. line arrives for a different group of workers (9:14). Four cars of the D.S.R. appear (9:34) among a massive crowd. A young couple stands in the street as a horse-drawn trolley or horse car is shown (9:43). D.S.R. began in 1873, running horse cars on Jefferson Ave (10:03). 1892 saw Detroit's first electric car (10:14) and the final horse car disappeared in 1896. Bus lines were established for distant communities (10:39). A repair shop is visited (10:58). Two wheels are set to be added to a 10 ton car (11:04). Buses peel from their garage (11:11). Population increase led to the expansion of the bus line (11:35). The trackless trolley bus, probably a Brill (11:43) on Plymouth Rd. Traffic regulations between rail cars and autos (12:24). Detroit was known for having low fares. Locals move down the line looking at the rail cars (12:49). Routes and costing are noted on a map (13:31). A steam locomotive (13:44). The rail car is noted to be the most economical. Seal of D.S.R. (13:59).
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I knew a lady musician who, as a teen at this time, took street cars all over Detroit to substitute for organists at churches in need. She would take a streetcar back (alone) after church and treat herself to an ice cream on her way home. Detroit was clean and orderly.
Then in the 60’s it changed. It got dark. And crime rose exponentially. My family market was sold in 69 too much crime and taxes. Was on the East side.
@zackjay71 Westside and same reason. Truly a shame about my home city.
Bless all the DDOT drivers who take there jobs seriously- I thank you. These trains ive heard about so much from my grandoatents and G.Grandparents and parents too.
my great grandfather and his father were both street car conductors in Detroit
It is sad that Greektown has basically disappeared . You used to make a day of it , and you could ! 3 floors of shopping and then The 8 or 9 choices for Greek food !
A token Greek resteraunt and Bakery are all thats left .
The Casino changed the dynamics of that neighborhood .
2:30 Imagine having a car parked on a section of rail and turning it into a house. It would be awesome. Like an endlessly classy trailer.
Grand a month gets you a 330 sq. ft. caboose in the Germantown area of Louisville, KY. They are pretty cool.
I rode those streetcars for some time then the city covered the tracks and cancelled the service. Then General Motors made a killing and sold busses to the DSR with smelly exhausts. They made my eyes burn.
Detroit, and so many other communities desperately need light rail today!!
Unfortunately, some see public services as a bad word
Boss Kettering and Henry Ford murdered all the functioning mass transit in Detroit and the burbs when GM's Electromotive Division could've improved and expanded it...
You obviously know nothing about the history of the DSR. Did you know that Henry Ford PAID to have the DSR lines extended to get to the Rouge so his workers could get to work with no excuses? Or that the Highland Park Assembly Plant was chosen in part because it had great access to the DSR for the same reason? GM located its plants around the city for the same reasons.
And then Coleman made the Mugger Mover
Slick Rick Snyder poisoned Flint and destroyed Detroit. So, there's that.
Yeah but it was never meant for us. Notice how it never made it to 8 Mile.
Look at that once great city. Destroyed during the Great White Flight. Summer if 67'. Flint, Saginaw, Lansing and Grand Rapids also began their freefall the same time.
classic lol. White people moving in = evil gentrifiers, white people moving out = evil white flight
You clearly haven’t been to the city in the last ten years
@multoc I just was just in the Detoilet last weekend and I live in Flint, so..
I guess whites don't take any responsibility for running Detroit into the ground. And look at that, whites poisoned Flint too. I guess whites were not responsible for that either.
@@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu Are you sure? What part of Detroit were you in? I walked downtown a few months ago. It's beautiful
Look what they took from us
11:32 - 11:45 Those are ugly buses.
The People Mover and Q-Line SUCK!
*people moocher
They really are nothing but a toy for people to try out once then forget
@@MrNostalgiabuff No, it's the Mugger Mover. The original one was at Fairlane but when the thugs ruined that one, the Mugger Mover name lived on downtown.
It aint there no more along with most of the city.....
Packard Plant is still there!
That time stamp and minute crawler was so annoying, I had to stop watching.
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