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[UrbanRail]

Wasnt sure where to put this, but  I feel it is relevant to the discussion of transportation in this region. To understand the future of transit, its good to understand the origins of our current transit network.

 

After my Grandparents passed away, I was given my Grandfather's collection of old streetcar/interurban and railway maps/brochures. In this collection is a brochure dating from 1947/48 and in it shows the proposed conversion and expansion of the old streetcar routes into gas and trolley bus routes. In 1945, a trolley bus was borrowed from Seattle and put into temporary service within Victoria as a demonstration run.

 

As you can see the map is similar to the network today with a few differences.

 

 

 

 

[Mike K.]

Awesome, aaron!

[UrbanRail]

Thanks Mike, not sure why the images went sideways.

[Mike K.]

Fixed it for ya.

[UrbanRail]

Fixed it for ya.

Thanks Mike.

[UrbanRail]

The Buzzer and an operators slip from the 1930s, all from Victoria

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[UrbanRail]

Streetcar tickets, 3 from Vancouver and 2 from Victoria

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[UrbanRail]

More tickets and two transfers from Victoria (streetcar era)

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[Nparker]

#CRDtransportationmuseumnow 

[UrbanRail]

#CRDtransportationmuseumnow 

 if only we had one. because a lot of our local transportation history is stored away or deep in our outdated city and provincial archives

[HB]

 if only we had one. because a lot of our local transportation history is stored away or deep in our outdated city and provincial archives

What is an outdated archive?

[UrbanRail]

What is an outdated archive?

 I guess what I mean is the current archives aren't interactive. They havent changed much since the late 60s.