McKinney Ave. Streetcar Service - Dallas, Texas - November 9-10, 2011
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- The Mckinney Ave. line is interesting. I enjoyed walking, riding, and filming it. Most operators run the cars in series because of the auto traffic. A few times I saw the cars run in parallel. The south end of the line near downtown is single track and bucks the one-way traffic for a few blocks. This will eventually change when additional trackage is built which will allow the cars to go further in to downtown ant to loop around the block. This looping will allow single ended cars to operate downtown. The other end of the line already loops around the block. The City Place station single track branch off the northwest end of the line will have a turntable to turn cars. The construction of this turntable was nearing an end at the time this video was made.This turntable is of course completely unnecessary since a normal streetcar loop could have been built. I suppose that the turntable is being built as a tourist attraction. From an operating and maintenance standpoint it is a bit over the top.
Its nice to see resurgences of streetcars
Nope, thats something we at MATA did to meet newer city requirements. Glad to hear someone else likes them!
I never did ride the streetcar, but wish I had!
I wonder, did the city put turn signals on the single-truck Birney? Because that right there made my day! Thanks for posting!
We looked into building a loop at this location and the property value was to high to only land we had was the little spot that the turntable takes up, we had to make plans for it 12 years ago, it wasn't our first choice.
And we do own a texas ranger pcc, we just need a "large" bit of money to fix her up and get her running.
In my country, I resemble a train that I rode as a child.
Nostalgic.
There is no old car in our country right now.
I resemble that remark.
They need a "Texas Ranger" PCC on that line in THE worst of ways!!
Seashore needs to turn loose their Dallas PCC for the M-Line.